Charmed, I’m Sure: One Hundred Sex Poems

I grew up in a particularly primitive era and society - the United Kingdom in the 1950’s and 60’s - which deemed it imperative that the moors of archaic religions and laws of the State should control the private and consensual sexual activity of the adult population.As a young lad, I wondered why most adults were so concerned and fidgety about what other adults did sexually in private, and I knew instinctively, as the young often believe they do, that many of the conventions and laws that adults perpetrate were simply a load of old malarkey.I decided that when and if I made it to puberty and beyond, I would ignore all such specious and aberrant strictures and work out the precepts of my own life and my own sexuality for myself, which I did, and do, and here in these poems is a small chunk of that.These poems span a period of over forty years, and are not presented chronologically, but are those that drew my interest or a specific remembrance, and taken randomly from many note and sketchbooks, as a rambling sampler.These poems are of sexual content, often explicitly so, and are intended for adult readers, ideally by those who do not feel obliged to excoriate sexuality not their own.