baserinstincts

Daddy Issues

So I’m reading Best Sex Writing 2008 edited by the fab Rachel Kramer Bussel (awesome book by the way, check out the blog here).

I was reading the piece entitled “Double Your Panic” in which the narrator (Kevin Keck) is anxious about the impending arrival of his twin girls given the obsession he harbored for twins in his youth.

The piece had me laughing out loud at times but the real priceless bit was at the end when his wife tries to reassure him saying “It’s usually the girls with daddy issues who turn out a little slutty.”

Eureka!

That explains a whole hell of a lot!

Now I’m not saying I’m a slut, you understand.

I’m just saying that there are any number of mistakes events in my sexual history that probably wouldn’t exist had my father stuck around longer (it would certainly help to explain why for years I insisted on chasing men who obviously didn’t want me).

I feel like calling him up and yelling “THANKS A LOT DAD!” into the receiver.