Chapter 7Sex. It’s a simple three letter word but for centuries, thanks to the influence of religion it has been a four letter word. And yet without s*x the human race would not have existed. Never has anything been so universally practised and so strictly controlled. My mother’s only advice about s*x when we were old enough was to ‘read the bible.’ I’ve read the bible half a dozen times and found no instruction and so I experimented with boys, eventually. I might have been the oldest child but it was Cathy who lost her virginity first at the age of eighteen. I was nineteen before I got with a guy, Tommy. He was not very experienced. He initially had a thing for Cathy but she was going out with his mate and so I became next in line. I suppose that should have told me something because the