A, B, C, Taiken

I was riding on the subway the other day and sitting on the seat next to me was a little Japanese book. There was no around, so it had obviously been left there. I picked it up and the title was "WATASHI NO HAJIME A, B, C, TAIKEN". Roughly "My First A, B, C Experience". Dork that I am, I thought it was talking about learning English so I started to read and the first few pages quickly disabused me of this notion.

The book was a collection of "letters" from young women about their first sexual experiences A=first kiss, B=getting felt up, and C=going all the way. Now I am under no illusions that the letters here were actually written, by the high school girls in the letters, but that did not lessent their effect.

"A" was pretty sweet, lots of shared walks under an umbrella and fire work festivals. The "B" section was pretty short. Not a lot of "B" that does not lead to "C" it seems. I was looking forward to "C" and thinking I might need to find a bathroom soon. "I felt his finger inside my underwear. I felt all soft and liquid. I knew I shouldn't,but..."

Somewhere along the way, the train had filled up and now the person next to me was talking to me. "Can you read that?" Some late middle-aged grandmother was looking at the book and at me. "Can you read that? I have never seen a foreigner read Japanese before." A splash of cold water. A rapid deflation a mumbled something and I exited, leaving the book for someone else. But I think I have found something new in language research. Arousal by text only pornography as a measure of fluency. All I need is a small government grant, some books and maybe a bathroom.