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Dear readers! The book you are holding in your hands took me almost a quarter of a century to write. The stories it contains found me; I was not looking for them. I grew up in the late 1950s. During my childhood, my parents preferred a stick to a hug. We never talked about sex in my family. The topic was taboo. My mother warned us that any kind of fooling around with a man before marriage was a sin. She believed that during sexual intercourse, a woman needed to “just bear it” and let the man perform “his right and duty”. She insisted that, when she was young, brides walked down the aisle as virgins. Her words somehow suggested to me that I was depraved and sinful, though I didn’t understand why, and they pierced my heart. Later when I was married and had children, I often viewed sex in a way similar to how she had portrayed it in my youth. Through my work at the radio, I had the opportunity to interview many elderly people. This is how, through a series of unexpected events...