It's all alright now
I don't think my mum was strict as much as just overprotective. I wasn't allowed to watch 12s, 15s or 18s until I reached the appropritate legal age, or watch TV after 9pm until I was about 16, so I never saw on-screen sex until I was about 15 or 16. (This is probably why I was sexually retarded until my late teens and had to ask my friend what a blow job was at the age of 14 and what wanking was when I was 15, in front of the boy I fancied.)

I wasn't allowed to drink alcohol ever, and she told my uncle off for giving me a glass of wine at Christmas when I was 15.

If I went out between the ages of probably about 14-16 I had to be back by 9, and I wasn't allowed a mobile to phone her on until I was about 15 either.

As soon as I turned 16 though and went to Amsterdam and got excessively drunk I was suddenly allowed to dye my hair and go out drinking (as long as I was back by midnight, but this was before 24 hour drinking and there was no way I could have got into clubs.)

Now she doesn't mind what I do, as long as I text her to say where I'm staying, but apparently my Grandad thinks I should act more responsibly and never go out.

Oh - except an isolated incident where a male friend of mine and I were sitting on my bed, fully clothed with my sister in the room, because there was no room on the floor and she thought it was inappropriate. She doesn't seem to mind me and my boyfriend being in my bedroom with the door closed though even though he is 5 years older than me.
(Marmite Omelette ...but I feel better having screamed, don't you?, Fri 9 Mar 2007, 14:30, Reply)