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Education had been a male prerogative, but at this time girls also began attending school. In Guo Moruo's case, this was the family school. Later, the right, in principle at least, of girls having access to literature was never mentioned because it had his generation, he too underwent violent personal changes. The first symptoms were at seven or eight years of age. One day, towards the end of Spring, he excused himself from the schoolroom and went to the garden where he saw a young woman seated Juicy Couture among the Juicy Couture Outlet bamboo; he was 'pierced with a sense of beauty and a violent desire to caress the soft, tender, pink hand'. In this incident he saw his first sign of sexual awakening although, to an outside observer, he seemed merely a Juicy Couture Handbags child. At about eleven years of age, he was so completely overwhelmed by the onset of puberty that nothing contented him. During exercises on a mat with a bamboo pole, he had a delicious sensation followed by an extraordinary lassitude like a fruit squeezed dry and he constantly tried to retrieve it. At Juicy Couture Sale this time he happened upon books in his brother's collection, Juicy Couture Diaper Handbags erotic books of the same sort that Tealeaf bought for Baoyu in Dream of the Red Chamber.
The first was a forbidden book but he found it so suggestive that his fingers became busy while reading and he 'unwittingly arrives at the third stage of this development'. His sister in law told on him, for the books, not the busy fingers, so we must assume that if she did not read them she was at least familiar with the titles and he received a stern scolding from his mother to no avail.
His hostility towards his childhood and available reading materials is striking.
These physiological changes are inevitable and, from their onset, all that can be done is to remove anything which causes excitement. Children's books are obviously important and, looking back, I am afraid that the saintly writings and venerable classics which we daily read in class must bear a heavy responsibility for the early sexual awakening of both myself and my contemporaries.
Education had been a male prerogative, but at this time girls also began attending school. In Guo Moruo's case, this was the family school. Later, the right, in principle at least, of girls having access to literature was never mentioned because it had his generation, he too underwent violent personal changes. The first symptoms were at seven or eight years of age. One day, towards the end of Spring, he excused himself from the schoolroom and went to the garden where he saw a young woman seated Juicy Couture among the Juicy Couture Outlet bamboo; he was 'pierced with a sense of beauty and a violent desire to caress the soft, tender, pink hand'. In this incident he saw his first sign of sexual awakening although, to an outside observer, he seemed merely a Juicy Couture Handbags child. At about eleven years of age, he was so completely overwhelmed by the onset of puberty that nothing contented him. During exercises on a mat with a bamboo pole, he had a delicious sensation followed by an extraordinary lassitude like a fruit squeezed dry and he constantly tried to retrieve it. At Juicy Couture Sale this time he happened upon books in his brother's collection, Juicy Couture Diaper Handbags erotic books of the same sort that Tealeaf bought for Baoyu in Dream of the Red Chamber.
The first was a forbidden book but he found it so suggestive that his fingers became busy while reading and he 'unwittingly arrives at the third stage of this development'. His sister in law told on him, for the books, not the busy fingers, so we must assume that if she did not read them she was at least familiar with the titles and he received a stern scolding from his mother to no avail.
His hostility towards his childhood and available reading materials is striking.
These physiological changes are inevitable and, from their onset, all that can be done is to remove anything which causes excitement. Children's books are obviously important and, looking back, I am afraid that the saintly writings and venerable classics which we daily read in class must bear a heavy responsibility for the early sexual awakening of both myself and my contemporaries.
