The Case of Amber Hamilton

Right here in my neck of the woods (why is it always Florida?) a twenty year old bus attendant was arrested for showing a mobile phone porn video to three boys, aged 10-12, on their morning route.  The boys say she also showed them pictures of “her private area.”  She says “little wankers!  They knew I had that stuff on my cellphone because they wheedled it out of me when we were talking and then they looked in my phone when I had my back turned!”

Ok, I’m making that last bit up, but you get the picture. 

Dear readers, just for entertainment and curiosity, I would like to pose a few questions for you now.

1)  Where did you see your first pornography?  Peeking at Grandad’s playboy collection?  Sneaking downstairs to spy on a stag film?  Maybe a an older cousin showed it to you…or an older cousin’s friend, or even a camp counselor or paper-route boss or some such?  Would you say that you were harmed by this experience? 

 2)  How did or would you have learned about sex apart from this experience?  What would you have learned about sex if you had not had this experience?

3)  If you had sex education classes in your school, did they tell you about AIDS and condom use, or give you a strong message that abstinence until marriage was the only responsible choice?

4)  A question for the ladies:  If you were arrested for, say, showing porn to your kids, what might your makeup look like after a few hours in police custody?  What do you think a picture of yourself taken at that time might look like?

 5)  Thinking back to when you were in the age range of, oh, say ten to seventeen:  Was there ever a somewhat older person - a friend’s sister, the young guy on the housepainting crew, maybe somebody you worked with or even that camp counselor - you made out with?  How old were you?  Was there more than one such experience?  Was there anybody much older?  What were those experiences like?

6)  When you were ten, what would you have called your genitals?  What would you have called the genitals of the other sex?

And a special bonus question…would you have been aware of the existence of non-heterosexuals at age ten?  Transgendered people? If you would have been, how was it that you knew about them?  If not, at what age did you find out about them?

Please feel free to post your answers to these questions in comments, or even email them to me.  Copy or link this around too, if you think they’re questions worth asking.  Might be more interesting reading than the usual blog quizzes.