Woe and Tell
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Backstory
| I wrote this in my diary in Miami Beach on August 9, 1974, when my father and his wife took my younger brother and me to meet our grandparents. My parents were divorced and hated each other. My father here gives insights into why my mom couldn't stand him. I was 16 years old. |
Why is this mortifying?
| I break out into a cold sweat just thinking about these tormented lectures from my father about his philosophy of life. |
Mortifying Text
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Yesterday Coop and Granddad golfed. Coop found Dad and me breakfasting in the dining area of the Montmartre. We got a paper to read in the lobby afterward. Unfortunately, we got untracked into a LONG rap (from him, us listening) on dat ol' devil, S-E-X. He said we were not brough up in an affectionate home environment and a woman cannot understand the special problems of us hot-blooded young dudes, both of which are true. He told us how he enjoyed sex, and in the long run it is beset to marry a beautiful woman.
All of which is agreeable. His ideas on sexual experience are rather screwy (get it?). Anything goes. Two rules should be adhered:
1) Don't get the girl pregnant 2) Don't get VD or syphilis. They ain't anything to clap about (tee-hee, tee-hee). The trouble is, one can't be 100% sure of avoiding either or both, so why risk it? He has, by implication, frequented whoreshouses in his tender years at the urging of his father, tasted homosexuality just to see what it was like (my Dad the fag?). His dish was a "totally uninhibited girl in San Antonio." He had mistresses and lovers in his single days, but was super-straight while married to Mom and while now with Kate. His clinching advice was for Coop and me to have a sexual encounter with an older woman to teach us all about what women like.
Oh, yeah, my mouth drools over the very thought. Pure voyaguerism, right from "Summer of '42". Bye the time you, the humble reader, digest this, Summer of '42 will be long forgotten. Try and find an old review of it from the spring of 1972 and this passage will be clearer. What morals! He said some guys screw anything that come along. He said any experience, even backseat quickies, were valuable. He noted that girls raised in Jewish households are great lovers because they are brought up in affectionate, sensuous surroundings that rub off onto their love lives.
He mentioned the "son wishing to sleep with Mother" adolescent syndrome. It is worldwide -- nothing to feel perverted about. He touched on masturbation, on much the same grounds, although it was not mentioned by that name. |
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