When Spencer Reid was 12 years old, his mother gave him a small collection (73 items in total) of books, magazines and 15th century erotic poetry in lieu of giving him a sex talk.
He considered that folios of woodcuts, the Aretino, John Wilmot's poetry, and John Cleland's Fanny Hill all taught him more than any public school human sexuality class, certainly they taught him more about humans, sex, and the ties between emotion and arousal. His mother's collection not only saved them both a seriously embarrassing 'talk', but it laid the ground work for his studies and eventually his role with the BAU.
And, of course, it's not every twelve year old boy who gets to brag his mother gave him porn. Even if most of the porn had been hundreds of years old. Diana had also included The Joy of Sex, Secret Garden, and copies of both Playboy and Playgirl.
His relationship with Diana might be fraught by her illness and the early adulthood it had forced on him, but Spencer never doubted his mother loved and wanted the best for him.
In that, he now knew, he had been lucky and remained so.
He also still had seventy-two of those items. (One Playboy had ended up to sticky and crinkled to survive, sadly.)
He considered that folios of woodcuts, the Aretino, John Wilmot's poetry, and John Cleland's Fanny Hill all taught him more than any public school human sexuality class, certainly they taught him more about humans, sex, and the ties between emotion and arousal. His mother's collection not only saved them both a seriously embarrassing 'talk', but it laid the ground work for his studies and eventually his role with the BAU.
And, of course, it's not every twelve year old boy who gets to brag his mother gave him porn. Even if most of the porn had been hundreds of years old. Diana had also included The Joy of Sex, Secret Garden, and copies of both Playboy and Playgirl.
His relationship with Diana might be fraught by her illness and the early adulthood it had forced on him, but Spencer never doubted his mother loved and wanted the best for him.
In that, he now knew, he had been lucky and remained so.
He also still had seventy-two of those items. (One Playboy had ended up to sticky and crinkled to survive, sadly.)
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