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23 March 2009

Looking for a late-'70s/early-'80s children's sex-ed book [More:]

I am writing this with a cat on one arm, plus my computer's H key doesn't always work, so please bear with me.

I learned the nuts + bolts of sex by looking it up in the card catalogue at the Halifax Public Library around grade one. (I was a bookish child.) This was no earlier than 1980 and no later than 1982.

I have a visual of the book I read: it was illustrated in a comicky style, with bright colours -- a style definitely of its time. The illustration of The Act was of two square, box-like robots/machines; one had a hose of some sort extending into the other.

Now I've got this idea that it would be funny to see this book... but I've had no luck on Amazon or the library's online catalogue (well, none with a cover picture, anyway). What are the chances they'd stock a 30-year-old sex-ed book anyway?

If anyone has knowledge of the genre or likes a challenge, I'd be grateful for any leads! Even just knowing someone else remembers it would be fantastic!
Do you mean this robot?

≡ Click to see image ≡

Sorry, couldn't resist. I found this doing a google search for your book.
posted by Ardiril 23 March | 08:56
I *wish* I knew!
posted by Stewriffic 23 March | 09:08
I wish Art Linkletter would stop pointing that finger at those poor children.

I wish I knew, too! I can picture it -- softcover, pretty slim, white backgrounds with colourful illustrations... Abstract; not really of the '70s "free to be you and me" school of thought.

GRRRR!!!
posted by loiseau 23 March | 10:03
Seems like a job for AskMe
posted by terrapin 23 March | 11:18
Sadly, I do not have a MeFi account. Oh wells. I'll just relegate it to the storage-room of my mind with all the other cruft from the past.
posted by loiseau 24 March | 11:40
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