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* "Marie" by Friar Dave (emerging adolescence) 10, 10, 10
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* "Marie" by Friar Dave. When she was a little under 11 years old
and had a body that was a bit advanced for her age, Marie made an
important discovery. She could become close to and even have sex
with nice men, and she could turn them on and still have them treat
her right, and it could be fun and sweet and pleasurable and not
hateful or hurtful or scary.

The problem was that soon she loved sex, and she was used to
getting it pretty much when she wanted it. And she was often horny
as hell. To use Marie's own expression, she was making Lolita look
like a nun.

Marie's initial sexual contacts were with boys near her own age.
She quickly graduated to more mature boys and to adult men. Once
she had experienced the more mature partners, she lost interest in
younger boys. She progresses to numerous hot, sexy adventures.

If we accept this as fiction - a nice story - then we're OK. If we
look at it as a case study - which is the format the author uses -
then our choices are to regard this story as either (1) a very
unusual set of circumstances or (2) a far-fetched fantasy. The
FACT is that there is an overwhelming tendency for girls who become
sexually active this young to have adult lives that are at best far
below their potential at and worst just plain miserable. I have
worked with kids who have been sexually active. I am not talking
about "kids" who get married and start a family when they are 17.
I am talking about kids who start having constant sex when they are
under 12 years old. In general, when they become adults, they have
no idea what real love is about. They've lost their childhood.
They almost invariably either drop out of school or just sit in a
desk until the law permits them to leave. They enter into a series
of shallow sexual relationships as adults, and they almost never
have what a sensible person would call a stable family. My guess
is that by their fiftieth birthday half of the kids I have known
like this will be dead after an unhappy life.

I also serve as an informal counselor to a large number of well-
adjusted teenagers (by being the sponsor of various organizations),
and my impression is that the sexual experiences of these kids
begin much later in life. Articles and case studies published in
scientific journals confirm my perception.

It's possible that I'm getting a biased sample in my real life
contacts. I work with kids who are dysfunctional, and so maybe I
just don't see the well-adjusted kids who have been having frequent
sex since they were 11 years old. It's POSSIBLE that the world is
full of wonderful children like Marie who become sexually active
before they turn 11, who are never sexually exploited, and whose
lives are not permanently screwed up because of their early sexual
experiences. These kids would not come to my attention, because
they look like normal kids and don't advertise the fact that
they're fucking one another's brains out when I'm not looking.
It's also important to note that even with the dysfunctional kids
it may be the problems in the rest of their lives that lead to
early sexual behavior rather than vice versa.

What I most emphatically want to say is that I do NOT believe that
any of you readers who started your sexual careers at a really
early age are necessarily scarred for life because of this. On the
other hand, I hope you have the honesty to admit that maybe life
would be better were it not for some early problems and mistakes.

Marie discovered early in this story that sex could be fun and
sweet and pleasurable and not hateful or hurtful or scary. I
learned the same thing from my mother and from the happy
environment in which I grew up. Mom didn't let me look at porn
magazines when I was really young, because they would "give me a
wrong impression of sex and love." My father and mother were very
affectionate in front of us, and I knew that someday I might get
lucky and have a similar relationship. She knew what kinds of
movies I watched and casually offered me advice, including the
encouragement to "save myself" for somebody I truly loved. I had a
full childhood and a happy athletic career in high school; and I
cannot imagine my sex life being much better than it is right now -
except when I get interesting ideas from these stories. My advice
to my own daughters has been similar; and had I ever suspected that
one of them was engaging in precocious sexual behavior I would have
done what I could have done to lead her to a more adaptive
lifestyle.

Having stated my personal philosophy in the previous paragraphs,
now I'll say that this is still an excellent story. It's
"realistic" in the sense that these events COULD happen to a person
that would grow up to be a normal, functioning adult. And if you
read the whole story, I think you'll discover that Marie's eventual
opinion of her life story is not all that different from my own.

The story is also just plain enjoyable - even to a person like
myself who would discourage such behavior in real life. I have
close friends and relatives who adamantly insist that anything
that's immoral, unwise, or unrealistic cannot be enjoyable. That's
just plain stupid. When I watch Star Wars, I don't worry about the
impact on their families of killing the storm troopers of the Evil
Empire. When I watch a movie about a clever bank robbery, I don't
worry about the fact that such activity would ultimately influence
how banks would operate and probably cause hardship for families
with marginal incomes. Get real! It would be fun to rob a bank
and get away with it (although I would never do it and it couldn't
really be harmless in real life), and it would also be fun for a
12-year-old to pull a train with a bunch of friendly 16-year-olds.
Not wise, perhaps, but certainly fun.

Some people cite this as Friar Dave's best story. I liked "Inger"
better, but this one is still an excellent story.

Ratings for "Marie"
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 10
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10