Victory Gardens
Sex
There is much discussion of sex in Victory
Gardens. Sex does after all go with war. The soldiers at the 'mail depot' back
at the gulf discuss and joke about sex to take their minds off their fears -
though they claim not to be afraid.
In Victory Gardens there is little difference
between the men's talk and the conversation of the women about sex. In the gulf
Sergeant Yvonne and Emily Runbird talk about Emily's experiences.
From:
Strange
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"What kind of story do you want?" Emily asked. Yvonne considered. "Tell me about your man." "Sarge," Emily protested, but Yvonne was insistent. "Tell me about the best time you ever had it. And don't spare none of the details." Emily couldn't think of what to say. "Come on, girl," Yvonne prompted. "Well okay. I don't know about the best time, but I'll tell you about the strangest." The Sergeant laughed. "Whoa now, that's even better. What was so strange about it - did Boris get rough? Did he tie you up, or did you tie him up? Did you whack his behind? Did he want to watch you make it with another girl?" She thought further. "Aw now, he didn't want to piss on you, did he?" |
The problem with Victor is that Emily climaxes.
Presumably for the first time. She is upset.
Change your life
| Yvonne was smiling at her. "There's always a first time. I remember mine. It sure was something else." She thought about it for a bit. "But after that, I don't know. It's nice but it don't change your life. Makes you wonder sometimes why the men care about it so much." "I know," Emily mused, "but in a way it did change my life. It felt like something was different in me, like a door was pulled off its hinges or a wall had been punched through. I felt out of control. I started crying, just buckets and buckets of tears. At first Victor thought I was happy. He was holding me and kissing me and stroking my hair. And maybe I was happy. But I couldn't stop crying. Pretty soon I was bawling like a baby, you know, heaving up these big breathless sobs. I cried so hard that I threw up, and even when that happened I still couldn't stop crying and I nearly choked. It got scary. He didn't want me to leave but I made him take me home." "Girl, you got some problems." |
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She is not going to return to Victor after the war.
"Because," Emily said, shutting her eyes, "I can't go through
that again. It felt too much like dying."
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