Although I am apparently highjacking this thread for my own purposes, I thought I would write about something that happened to me. When I was just entering adolescence, my mother told me how babies got started. I found it unbelievable and appallingly disgusting -- that a man would actually put his penis into a woman. At the same time the thought was fascinating.

I have wondered how I got this kind of reaction, and why it later changed. I think that it was because all bodily functions, and especially anything to do with sex, were seen by my mother as being powerful and forbidden, and I certainly picked up that attitude. It affected a great many areas of my life, even things like eating habits.

Dictionary definition: forbidden fruit, a thing that is desired all the more because it is not allowed.