Sex Education

This is a true story. I first learned something about sex from Robert Sarason. I was about eight or nine years old, living on Crawford Avenue in Syracuse, and generally ignorant about the practice of sex. I knew something about sperms and eggs, and the process whereby the baby grew inside the mom, uterus and all that, but had not become enlightened as to exactly how the sperm came to meet the egg. That was a mystery.

One day, as we were hanging around, Robert Sarason informed us that if you put your penis on a girl’s tit, that was called rape. He had no explanation for why one would do that, only that the process was called rape. And we all figured he must know something, because he had an older brother, who for all we knew, engaged in this mysterious practice.

I was reminded of this incident because I sat down last weekend and wrote a check to Planned Parenthood. Robert raises money for Planned Parenthood, and probably as a result of that, I’m on the mailing list. Anyway, I thought, how interesting – here we are years later, and Robert is still in the business of spreading the word about sex education. I only hope that he has his facts straight by now.