“Whatever your opinion of frequent sexual congress, let us assume for the purpose of this study that sensual sex should provide an increase in personal happiness, which was a widely held belief during the era we are discussing. A visual expression of the data we compiled regarding the subject's sexual activity shows happiness decreasing as sexual activity increases.” KidsSexWomenRelationshipsFeminismTeenagers Book:Love and Trouble: A Midlife Reckoning Source: Love and Trouble: A Midlife Reckoning
“Drinking and drugging make it so your reality flies away from you. Your body and your mind are not present. I loved that feeling as a kid. For me, the strongest way to have that feeling was love and sex. Not only did I enjoy it - that feeling of being transported - but because I was so boy-identified, first as a tomboy and then as a girl who liked to sleep with boys.” MindFeelingsRealityKidsGirlEnjoySleepBoysDrinkingFly Away Author:Claire Dederer
“When I was really sad, I would be like a little kid wiggling a loose tooth or touching a sore spot - there were things that I did to make myself sadder. It was almost as if I were luxuriant in my own melancholy. Looking at the diaries and thinking about my old self, thinking about my lost youth - that was part of that project of making myself totally miserable.” ThinkingKidsYouthMiserableMelancholyTouchingLittle KidReally SadOld Self Author:Claire Dederer
