As he does this, Niehoff describes and tries to understand why and how a man and woman choose each other, have sex/make love, and in his case, when it all crashes, ask "why" again and pick up the pieces.
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"How could it be, he thought, sitting on a swing during a hot summer night in Texas, holding and kissing a southern girl, he the son of Indiana farmers, Catholic, God-fearing people who had brought up four children who were expected in their turn to raise further broods of Catholic, God-fearing children. Even though their world had changed greatly, his father having been through the Great War and they having abandoned the small town/country lifeway of their parents, his parents still saw the world as one of constancy. How could they visualize him, their only male child, trying to learn to love in such a far-off place as southern Texas and with a long-legged girl who said 'you-all' and called her parents papa and mama and whose middle name was Lee." . . . p. 378
"He squirmed from the pain in his balls, knowing that he would have to go soon, that that was the only way he could get relief. It had become a pattern: they would stay until closing time at the USO or go out somewhere and return late, walking or by bus, to sit without a word on the porch swing to kiss and fondle. She seemed almost to expect it even though she made it clear early on that her tits and legs above the knees were off limits." . . . p. 379
"The Transitioner also filled his own cuplet. 'Okay, Martin, this new classification of social positions is interesting. But what about the part you just saw in your role of childhood and young manhood? What did you learn about how you were being socialized or shaped for your adult role as householder?'
"'A number of things, though most are hardly earth shaking. I was raised in the era when sexuality was deliberately controlled by the family. If they could help it, you didn't mess around, as we got to call sexual affairs in the late twentieth century. The control began when you were an infant and tried to play with your genitals and continued into your early adulthood. You weren't supposed to do it until you were married.'" . . . p. 398
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