meryl Don't go near the boys ? That was it.
My mother told me about periods but it was left to an older girl who I played out in the street with, to warn me that ‘if a boy was rude to you, you’d have a baby and disgrace your family’.
This rather puzzled me and I asked my mother what my friend meant. Mum replied that I was too young to understand. I must have been 9 or10.
Enlightenment only came when we did human reproduction at school.
Our 40-something, bachelor science teacher, Mr Finch, told the wide-eyed class of 11-year-old boys and girls that having sex must be nice because it resulted in having children, so no-one would do it if it wasn’t
Needless to say it wasn’t long before some of the class were trying it out for themselves
Where to be interred ? Burial Decisions