Propelled into puberty

[firecat]

These things kick-started me into puberty:

"Whole Lotta Love" by Led Zeppelin
"Ballroom Blitz" by Sweet
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Did any books or music kick-start you into puberty? Did anything else?

Comments

[azurelunatic]

I noticed that puberty was starting to hit around about the time I read The White Dragon.

The big book of my teenage years was Cyteen, but that came after all the rest.

[senmut]

+grins+ Um, I read all of Pern through Nerilka, the then most recent publication, by 11, so it wasn't those...

I want to say I was devouring Heinlein's adult books during puberty's onset. I had jumped into one after I finished off all of McCaffrey, and by the time I was coping with the hormones of puberty I was wading through Stranger in a Strange Land.

[vito_excalibur]

David Bowie's Area in Labyrinth. The beginning of a life-long thing for men with long hair and tight pants....

[jinian]

More the Goblin King as a whole, for me, but HELL YES. (I can't claim the package wasn't involved, of course.)

[firecat]

Ooh baby!

[grammarwoman]

Probably the Earth's Children series by Jean M. Auel, especially "The Valley of the Horses". The explicit sex scenes in that were quite eye-opening.

That, and Prince's "Darling Nikki". *grin*

[dingsi]

I'm not sure? I struggle with the term kickstarting because my past is mostly a blur and I "forgot" a lot about my puberty... though of course I had a crush on the Goblin King too *g* and... and I think there was a certain scene in A-ha's Take On Me video where Morten Harket gets slapped and pushed around a lot by unseen forces while he's sweaty and in peril, and afterwards he looks at the video's protagonist with the sweetest smile, which my little proto-sadist self subconsciously interpreted as "I got hurt [by you] and really liked it!" so I promptly fell in love.
A huge teenage influence, however (I was 17 or so?) was Poppy Brite's "Lost Souls" - there were vampires, and they were GAY, and they had SEX.

[firecat]

proto-sadist self subconsciously interpreted as "I got hurt [by you] and really liked it!" so I promptly fell in love.

Mmm-hm!

[serene]

I don't understand the question. (not being snarky)

[firecat]

Those songs/books were tied up in my first experiences of sexual desire.

[innerdoggie.livejournal.com]

No, puberty hit me when I was only 11 and I was in 5th grade. I was NOT happy about this. I felt it meant that I was no longer a child and was not allowed to read any children's books any more. So I slammed my way through Mary Poppins, Wind in the Willows, etc., all the classics I'd neglected to read and could cram into my schedule.

But mood-wise I was fine, and didn't have any troubles with depression until 7th grade and junior high. I have a strong hunch this was situational and had nothing to do with hormones.

If I were dictator of the universe, I would delay menarche until age 14. 11 is ridiculous, and some kids even get it at age 9! Poor babies!

So, no, the fun caterwauling of Zep was many years away.

[firecat]

I felt it meant that I was no longer a child and was not allowed to read any children's books any more.

WHAT?!?!?! If any adults gave you that idea, I would like to find them and rip out their eyeballs.

My periods started a year or two before I began to recognize sexual feelings, and when I say "kick-started into puberty," I mean the latter.