Dear Daughters,
All global daughters. My youngest daughter is 16. She thinks I have forgotten. It might have been the drug dazed 70's ....But I remember well - those high high wedges we tottered around on covered by our maxi dresses and big floppy hats over even bigger hair. Those guys with their long hair that blowed in the breeze like hero's from Game of Thrones, those tight tight denims that just covered their tiny arses and draped on the ground with the flower embroidered bell bottoms, those skin glo-weave shirts that clung to every muscle on their chests.
My mother told me if I did anything with the boys she would know - and I stupidly believed her. If I told my daughter that she'd laugh at me. My daughter - just like all beautiful young girls is gorgeous, she bubbles, she skips when she walks, people are drawn to her eager for life eyes and her gentle giggle. The boys hang around her like kids hanging around the fairy floss machine at a fete.
"Oh" she says to me all sunshine and naiveté, 'They just wanna be friends."
"Oh honey," I say "really?"
I have thirty years of experience of trying to be friends with guys and I can honestly say I ended up having sex with all of them! Men are wonderful but men are unable to separate friendship from sex because men are unable to separate anything from sex most of the time.
I tried to be friends with the german café owner and we had desperate sex on the café tables
I tried to be friends with a fellow student at art school and I ended up doing life modelling for him - enough said
I tried to be friends with a fellow parent at kindergarten and we ended up having friendly sex in the park while the kids were at kindy
I tried to be friends with a cross dressing client when I was a social worker and we still ended up having sex and he was wearing my clothes
I had sex with them because they were needy and I hate to seem uncaring and because they were friends and I felt warmly toward them and because at the time I couldn't see the harm in it.
So now I say to my daughter, "Be careful, look after yourself because when you give yourself sexually you give a little of your soul too. Don't be too eager - don't think you will miss out if you don't hurry in. Wait for him, wait for the ones that are good enough. Treat yourself and him with respect AND demand it back from him or dump him."
If he puts you down - dump him!
If he tries to control you - dump him!
If he beats you - dump him!
If he uses anything as an excuse for superiority and that includes religion or culture - dump him
If he's rude to your friends or family - dump him
If he won't stick up for you - dump him
I had to wait until I was 33 for real love to find me but it did. But I truly think the secret was that I wasn't looking for it. By then I was happy in my own skin and in my own space. Now when I look at my husband, he's an old man. Gone is that thick jet black hair that hung to his elbows, gone is his height and the tight tight pants. He wears reading glasses now and his hear is grey - but I truly still think he is really hot!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/sex/10463976/Casual-sex-linked-to-depression-and-suicidal-thoughts.html