Wertperch just reminded me
My sister went to uni when I was about 9 or 10 (I was one of those innocent kids who just didn't have a clue) and left a ragmag at the side of the beds (we were in bunkbeds) after a visit home for the weekend.
I don't know if she was trying to kill some of the innocence intentionally - she left a few Jackie Collins books too, which of course I read.

I loved that ragmag - 'how do you stop people with frizzy hair (afros as I recall, but I aten't a racisms) from jumping up and down on the bed'?
Stick velcro on the ceiling.
That's the only joke I remember from that now.

Some of those jokes in the ragmag made me tweenlol, but some of them, I didn't get.
I'd never heard of the word 'penis' before then (willy, dick or tassel, yes. Correct anatomy name? No.) so decided to ask my parents, ever so innocently (of course I knew it was something rude), at the family dinner table.
Perfectly mispronounced too: "Mum, what's a penn iz?"
Sibs choke back a giggle and feign extreme interest in the mush on their plate (I'm the youngest by at least 5 years).
"WHERE did you hear that?"
"Oh its in some book I found beside my bed"
Innocent blinking, maintain eye contact with the right amount of 'well? what is it then?' on my face.
That was an awkward meal - for my sister anyway.

Thinking about it now, I'm not sure why they didn't just say that it was the medical name for 'tassle' and carry on eating(!) with a straight face. It is possible I never actually found out until I got to the Jackie Collins novels
(maggotriddendirtbox fast, feral and sharp as a tack since, Mon 16 May 2011, 5:09, 5 replies)

Snurk...
Now this in turn reminds me of the shock I had on being sent to fetch something from my parents' bedside table. upon which I found a porny mag showing the oral sex.

I can't recall whether I was more stunned by the fact that may straight-laced parents had this, the sex acts, or the female model's lurid makeup.
(wertperch is losing his hair, marbles and patience., Mon 16 May 2011, 6:35, closed)

Ha, we could keep bouncing off each other like this
I never had this though, the 'rents obviously had a better hiding place.
I know my mum used to keep a massive wooden club beside the bed. They always maintained it was in case they had to defend themselves against burglars.
Now I'm not so sure

off to get the mindbleach
(maggotriddendirtbox fast, feral and sharp as a tack since, Mon 16 May 2011, 7:18, closed)

Tassel?

( Dervel OTBC, Mon 16 May 2011, 15:26, closed)

raised by strippers. it's more common than you'd think.

( janet aylia y'all motherfuckers need jesus, Mon 16 May 2011, 21:30, closed)

I'm not sure how it was spelt
Twas only referred to in hushed tones, so I'm covering all bases
(maggotriddendirtbox fast, feral and sharp as a tack since, Tue 17 May 2011, 7:15, closed)