Lynn P, I'd also like to say I think you handled that very well.

I feel kind of redundant but would like to share my bit. I never thought about touching myself when I was a kid. The thought that it might feel good just never occurred to me at all - we never really discussed sex in my house, or heard our parents doing it, etc. It was only once my more liberal friends bought me a toy for my 18th (yes!) birthday that I realised what I was missing! I still feel like the odd one out, the 'wrong' one for never having done it before.