As an eighth grader my first erotic Novel was Sidney Sheldon's THE OTHER SIDE OF MIDNIGHT which was followed by MEMORIES OF MIDNIGHT and SANDS OF TIME.
I had walked into my parent's room to find the Reader's Digest and found Sheldon's novel THE OTHER SIDE OF MIDNIGHT lying around with a Dollar wedged between the novel.
I started reading it and could not put it down later on finishing the novel ,I went to return the novel .
My mom asks me "I have been looking for that book , where did ya find it?"
I said I was reading it.
She was surprised "Did ya get what was in the novel"
I was like "Yeah mom I am not stupid"
Can I borrow another novel ?
Sure honey, Arther Hailey's AIRPORT is a good novel , you can have that when I am finished reading it.
Thanks mom.
Oh wait, have your read MEMORIES OF MIDNIGHT by Sidney Sheldon.
No mom
Go ahead take it from the shelf by my bed.