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A coming of age story

8:41 am Wednesday, 11th May, 2016

I recall being attracted to girls from the time I was a child. I had no idea what I was experiencing of course, but I had crushes on girls in primary school and on occasion when I managed to come across pictures of naked women (usually by raiding someone’s dad's stash of porn - magazines back then of course) I knew I'd found something I thought very special and that made me feel like nothing else in the world. As I got towards puberty this feeling evolved into what remains to this day an intense sexual attraction towards women. As a child I never thought about boys in this way. I simply didn't contemplate them as a sexual or romantic possibility. I never thought of seeking out pictures of naked men, as it was definitely women I felt interested in.

There was only one incident I can recall which may have been predictive of things to come. Playing dress ups one day with my sister and her friends I put on a pair of pantyhose. I was a child and didn't think anything of it at first, but



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