I popped my nose into the study room/library in the school where I work the other day. It was empty. As I looked around the bookshelves I noticed a sheet of A4 propped up in front of some of the books on a top shelf. I approached it and saw that the word Penis was written large in red biro. I grinned and went up the spiral library ladder to take it down. This was a school for 17 an 18 year-olds, not 13 and 14 year-olds. I would have thought these obsessions would be out of their system by now. I went downstairs into the office to have a little laugh about it. Kerim said yes I saw that. and I said Oh. did you not think to take it down? He said oh well I thought why not? where’s the harm? It is a liberal place.
It got me thinking. Yes, where’s the harm? It’s not obscene. It’s just a bit silly. But it certainly corresponds to an instinct in the teenage boy. Why not? So I started to regret taking the sheet down and throwing it in the bin. The next day I decided to put it back up. I took a similar A4 sheet, wrote the word penis on it in big letters and when the library was empty climbed up the spiral library ladder to put the page back on the topmost shelf. I was just doing this when a little group of 17-year-old girls came into the library and saw me up the ladder putting the word penis up on the top shelf. They did not bat an eyelid.
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