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[hunter]

20. My parents were artists with day jobs.

Photos, drawings, and paintings of naked people were not hidden in our home. They were right out there on the coffee table, both women and men, including my mom's radical feminist 'zines.

My mom's criticism of Playboy was the sexism, the airbrushing, and the excessive makeup. Compared to some of the other stuff scattered about our house, the articles in Playboy really were more interesting than the photos.

I don't think I had any unanswered questions about sex, sexuality, or birth control by the time I became seriously interested in sex. That probably kept me out of a lot of trouble.

Some neighborhood kids were forbidden by their parents to go into our house. I remember my dad had a huge falling out with one of his sports buddies when the guy caught his teenage kid with a magazine the kid had taken from our house.