Excerpt from Through Darkest Adolescence: With Tongue in Cheek and Pen in Checkbook I, too, was troubled by the first stirrings of sex, though not until I was about fourteen. Up to that time I thought there was no difference between boys and girls except that boys could run faster and throw a ball farther. Also, girls were always putting their hands up in class, and not just when they wanted to leave the room. Nowadays boys begin getting ideas about girls when they are ten or eleven, and by the age I was starting to catch on they are already going steady. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.