For your information, Lester, there are at least five wonderful parts of the female body that can be viewed by the owner only with a hand mirror.

Sitting in the wicker rocking chair with her interrupted work in her lap, Amaranta watched Aureliano José, his chin covered with foam, stropping his razor to give himself his first shave. His blackheads bled and...

More than that, the thought rattled uncomfortably in my child brain that I would one day become one of them. My body then was sexless. Though I had seen the curves of adults, I couldn’t...

And so I was scared. I was scared of my own sexual hunger, which felt so secretive and uncharted, and I was scared of the sexual hunger of boys, which felt so vivid and overt,...

If God wanted teenagers to be abstinent, puberty would begin at twenty.

I sure wasn’t going to ask Aunt Sally, because if she told me once that getting your period was like a moth becoming a butterfly, she’d probably say that sexual intercourse was like a deer...

The dark realization came to him that a difficult and miserable age had begun for him, and he couldn’t imagine when it would end. [Puberty]

When assaulted by sexual knowledge for the first time, a girl plunges into a period of blackness, which is required in order to let her emotions catch up with her body.Sleeping Beauty sleeps. Cinderella waits,...

In my experience, any class or assembly restricted to girls was going to be in some way degrading, like the one where we’d been convened to receive the information that from now on our bodies...

When a child reaches puberty, parents become so curious about their sex lives and whereabouts, put them behind bars to their own detriment. When such a child breaks free, don’t be surprised to see him/her...

Almost everyone first realized they were becoming a grown woman when some dude did something nasty to them. …It was mostly men yelling shit from cars. Are they a patrol sent out to let girls...

THIS IS WHAT A MAN LOOKS LIKE. HE DOES NOT HAVE TO BE AESTHETICALLY PLEASING; HE DOES NOT HAVE TO BE MUSCULAR; HE DESERVES NOT TO BE PHOTOSHOPPED. HE IS HUMAN, AND HE HAS BLEMISHES....

Are you there God? It’s me, Margaret. I just told my mother I want a bra. Please help me grow God. You know where.

I don’t think wood was discovered in Britain until the 1970’s. That’s when I discovered it anyway.

Internet is puberty of society.

Prison for the crime of puberty — that was how secondary school had seemed.

Puberty corrupts – that’s a fact, and it corrupts without consent – that’s the concern.

Hey, look—your girlfriend is saying something.”Artemis had a vast mental reserve of scathing comebacks at his disposal, but none of them covered girlfriend insults. He wasn’t even sure if it was an insult. And if...

Except that today, oblivious to everyone, there is a hair standing tall inside his shorts: a single hair: long, black and shining. Sprouting out of nowhere, it stands rebelliously erect on his tiny barren orb,...

You’ll understand someday, James.

Partly James was jealous because he was a virgin, but mostly it just felt really weird being in a room with two people who’d spent the night having sex. It reminded him of the feeling...

Just as my body had changed at puberty, now I was developing a sense of guilt, a sense not only of how I appeared to others, but of how I appeared to myself, especially in...

Sex Games: What Men Really Think About Sex Partners (Sexuality, Cheating

The best things in life make you sweaty.

Whuppins were like kid taxes we paid with our behinds.