Just a Girl by Tammie Adele

 Love Child, never meant to be Love Child, born in poverty Love Child, never meant to be Love Child, take a look at me   Sombre moment here. When I was young my beautiful big sister died as a result of having a 3 month premature baby. Now all of this created a lot of B.S. for my whole family to deal with, on many different levels, but thankfully the end result was that my parents eventually ended up raising my niece. While my niece was still an infant we would get many weird looks if Mum, my niece and I happened to be out in public together. The weird looks were largely due to people not knowing if I had managed to get myself in trouble at a young age (18), or if my mum had got herself in trouble at a late age (43). This really bought home the social cringe that is apparently associated with childbearing. The average life expectancy of an Australian is something like 83 years, and yet during these 83 years we only have about 15 years during which society thinks that it’s socia

  Let's talk about sex, baby Let's talk about you and me Let's talk about all the good things And the bad things that may be   Sex is one of the most perplexing issues that a woman will encounter. As young adults our fathers are devastated at the thought of us having sex, while patting their sons on the back if they get some. We’re expected to maintain a virginal appearance to society while providing functional services for reproduction and male relief – though often the same males that are devastated at the thought of their daughters having sex dream of wild, unabandoned sex romps themselves. Couple this with Liam Neeson’s portrayal of Alfred Kinsey in the movie Kinsey , in which his character gains critical acclaim for his 1948 research paper Sexual Behaviour in the Human Male , but is shunned for his 1953 follow up Sexual Behaviour in the Human Female because - I paraphrase here - ‘People don’t want to hear about their wives and sisters having an orgasm.’ T