Three little girls from school are we

At the risk of attracting the wrong kind of element to this blog, I overheard a remarkable conversation on the train today.


I sat down in an empty train carriage today, empty but for three teenage school girls perhaps 15-16 years old.

Although they were sitting only 3 metres away and despite there being no significant noise to drown out their conversation they engaged in a conversation that made this father of three blush.

Apparently Girl 1 hadn’t gone all the way, hadn’t had sex, she had just done normal stuff. You know? Normal stuff…Kissing perhaps? a deep kiss? a clumsy and misdirected grope, you might think.

No, normal stuff like …

Girl 1: Well you know, it involved a 6 and a 9.

Girl 2: What?

Girl 3: ……“ you know she lies like that and he goes like this …get it? Like a number 69.

Girl 2: oh, right.

Girl 3: Have you ever tried A . N. A. L?

Girl 2 Isn’t it A. N.E.L?... No not yet, have you?

Girl 3: What hurts more do you suppose that or normal?”

Girl 1: Definitely that.

Girl 2 Oh definitely. Does it hurt the guy?

Girl 3: Don’t think so. It would be better if it was smaller I guess. What about rimming?

Girl 1: Oh rimming yeah that’s not even sex that’s just, that’s just disgusting...

Girl 1,2,3; Laughing

Girl 3: Can anyone hear us?,…can that guy?

Girl 3: Where did you do it? At home?

……

Girl 1: No I could never do it at home….on Eastborne Beach

Girl 3: On Eastbourne Beach?

Girl 1: Yeah further around where no one could see us.

Girl 2: Wouldn’t the sand get all inside your…?

Girl 1: No Eastborne Beach is stony.

Girl 3: You’d get stone...

Girl 2: No it was okay, really.

Girl 2: How tall is he?

A further commuter joins us.

Girl 3: If he is taller it would probably help because, you know he would be like this and you would be like that...

Girl 2: like what?

Girl 3 Like this

Enough people had got on the train at this point that their conversation moved to safer topics.

Quite a conversation from a group of girls from a respectable single sex college in Wellington.

I will leave you to draw your own conclusions from this conversation.

My takeout is that sex education has never been more critical, and I will take it wherever it is being made available.