• CerebralHawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    27 days ago

    Nothing that exciting. I was curious about girls and I knew porn was commercialized trash, so I hit my father’s Encyclopedia Britannica set. Then went to the library and read books on anatomy. Then gynecology. I think by 15 I knew more about the internal workings of my female peers than they knew about themselves — but back then, girls were not taught a lot about their bodies.

    I was (still am) a nerd — how the female reproductive system worked was far more interesting to me than what the external female genitalia looked like (or what it all smelled, tasted, and felt like). I figured that was relatively simple information. See a few, you’ve seen most of the data set. Plus, I’d rather get to know a person than reduce them, in my mind, to mere meat. I’m no saint or anything — I may be demisexual. But I’m just me — labels are a poor way to define people since they imply limitations more so than potential.

    Like I said, not very exciting.

    As for why I’m not a doctor today, 31 years later — money. Or rather, a lack of. Education in things like medicine and law take money. Had the smarts for it though, the aptitude. Still do, just not the training, the practice — or the degree.