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lydamorehouseI think "they" CAN.
An Amazon.com customer reviewer wrote this about Tall, Dark & Dead, "This book is spicy and very strait (sic) forwarding in the sexual thinking department. It kind of leaves you with you mouth hanging open and wondering 'Do girls or even I really think that way'?"
This comment made me smile because one of the reoccurring conversations I had with Ms. Ember, my straight grrl consultant for TDD, was about the fact that I tended to have Garnet hop into bed with her lovers without a lot of preamble. Ember told me that straight grrls, at least from her perspective, being one, tended to need more reason for sex other than "Yippee! You're cute, let’s go!"
Which, frankly, baffled me.
I guess straight grrls need to remember things like condoms, the pill, and any number of other contraceptive/protective measures, which slows down the whole "yippee" reaction. And, you know how it is, once you have to stop to think of one reason not to, suddenly you have a moment to consider the whole thing, and the next thing you know you're looking at your watch saying, "Oh, is that the time?"
What's funny, is that I originally had Garnet in bed with Sebastian a lot sooner than what appeared in the final draft. Both Ember and Anne, my editor, told me they thought the affair went too fast. So, I grudgingly added all sorts of "romantic" foreplay.
Humph, if Garnet were a lesbian, she'd have moved her stuff into Sebastian's apartment sometime after the first date.
So, yes, Virginia, there are girls who think that way, they're just not straight (strait) girls!
An Amazon.com customer reviewer wrote this about Tall, Dark & Dead, "This book is spicy and very strait (sic) forwarding in the sexual thinking department. It kind of leaves you with you mouth hanging open and wondering 'Do girls or even I really think that way'?"
This comment made me smile because one of the reoccurring conversations I had with Ms. Ember, my straight grrl consultant for TDD, was about the fact that I tended to have Garnet hop into bed with her lovers without a lot of preamble. Ember told me that straight grrls, at least from her perspective, being one, tended to need more reason for sex other than "Yippee! You're cute, let’s go!"
Which, frankly, baffled me.
I guess straight grrls need to remember things like condoms, the pill, and any number of other contraceptive/protective measures, which slows down the whole "yippee" reaction. And, you know how it is, once you have to stop to think of one reason not to, suddenly you have a moment to consider the whole thing, and the next thing you know you're looking at your watch saying, "Oh, is that the time?"
What's funny, is that I originally had Garnet in bed with Sebastian a lot sooner than what appeared in the final draft. Both Ember and Anne, my editor, told me they thought the affair went too fast. So, I grudgingly added all sorts of "romantic" foreplay.
Humph, if Garnet were a lesbian, she'd have moved her stuff into Sebastian's apartment sometime after the first date.
So, yes, Virginia, there are girls who think that way, they're just not straight (strait) girls!
