It wasn’t an Apple
I was thirteen when I discovered Eve did not eat an apple in the Garden of Eden. When I would read Genesis 3, I would ask: How does a serpent talk? How does eating fruit make one realize they are naked? And what does the serpent's seed have to do with this?
I would later go on to ask what made Cain and Abel so different. In 1 John 3:12 it says: Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one. Obviously Adam was not that wicked one. Eve had been carrying twins from separate impregnations. Cain's conception had been prior to Abel's. Which brings us to the serpent seed.
The Bible calls the serpent "more subtle than any beast of the field." He was so subtle he was able to beguile Eve. Which means he talked like a human, and could act like a human.
The "fruit" in Genesis 3, is speaking of the fruit of the womb.
You could say I was raised in a sheltered home, so when I discovered this, my brain needed several days to digest this revelation. This was my first realization of what reproduction was.
(Like I said, sheltered home, lol)
The Discovery of Porn
First off, I think we can pretty much agree porn has been in vogue for what seems forever. From the black and white short movies of the 1920's, the two-minute reels, to playing cards with suggestive poses to the hardcore movies that held people spellbound and eager to get home to try that "airplane spin" or whatever it is called. The hanging basket from the ceiling sold in the thousands and it wasn't to hold flowers but rather, your female partner. basically, porn has been around for centuries. But let me get to the long and the short of this.
About sixteen years ago, i discovered porn on the internet by way of a typo. i was looking for a brand of corn syrup and when I hit enter, I was inundated with pop-ups galore. Instead of corn I type in porn. The funny part about this is that my wife, at the time, walked into the study the same time this took place, took one look at what was on the screen, then looked at me and said, "Honey, what hell?" Then I explained what happened and she laughed saying, "Baby, I have all the syrup you'll ever need."
She wasn't lying.
Don’t show your memory card to kids! They will know everything!
Warning: Filled with sarcasm and dark humor.
I was 11 years old and I'm in my 6th grade.
I have known what the word 'sex' means but I didn't know what's the "practical experience" it possess. I thought it was a cuss word.
You know? Like the word "f@*k".
I asked my father once, and he got angry (cause I was in 4th grade and I didn't know better and asked him what it meant when we're eating lunch).
Until some random acquaintance of my parents got to our house, in her hand was a memory card containing a lot of files. She thought that by getting her husband's memory card—his phone broke into pieces—she could have an evidence for her husband's affair.
She and my father talked, then the memory card was given to me. I was tasked to search for every nook and cranny for the so-called "evidence", which I doubted but still proceeded.
Then they left to do some business and the only people who were left in the house were me and my brother.
So far, nothing was noted as an evidence.
Oh! A movie!
I saw a file folder for movies and clicked. For reference I was using a classic nokia 6300 at that time, it was a second-hand phone.
I clicked on the first one, titled— IRON MAN THE MOVIE
I had already watched that movie but it's still nice to watch it again right?
But that's weird! Where's Iron man?
I got impatient and tried watching the other video files left in the folder.
There's also a movie called—SNOW WHITE.
And I was brought to a world I didn't know it existed.
It really fits the phrase "curiosity kills the cat".
Cause I damn watched everything with my pale face and hands trembling, retching and hiding behind a bush in our backyard.
At that time, I was glad I didn't handed the memory card to my younger brother.
I also realized what the word "reproductive organ" really meant.
And found another part of my body that was already existing but just found out where it's actually located.
And one more thing!
I realized babies don't come out of the pee hole!
That was the most mind blowing thing I ever discovered.
Few hours after that, she came back and asked about the evidence. I told her there was none because it was filled with something else that any 'married' adults could have, so she went home.
I was green-minded(dirty minded) for weeks.
But what also changed?
I found my parent's file folder for porns because of this new acquired skill of digging up dirty shits.
Oh! And those circle-shaped strawberry flavored candies my mom was hiding in their clothes' drawer, I was resentful at that time thinking why she had to hide those candies from us—later realized it wasn't candies. Wait.. is that why mom hates strawberry flavor??
I've dug deeper and deeper into this abyss and kept swallowing me to the core, unable to pull back. I'm at the point where I could see some of de Sade's works. HEH.
What I learned???
I learned to delete my search history record and other history related things on my acc and phone (cause all the dirty shits you've done is clearly recorded there) to erase the fact that my innocence was once tainted.
Please also do that, my uncle once wanted to know on how to (illegally)download music, so I taught him how.
And he didn't deleted his search history, so I saw what he had been searching and downloading.
Please clean up your trails. It burns the eyes of a child, holy water couldn't cure it.
What could you possibly learn in knowing early what porn is except for the "applying the theory into practice"??
Red flags! It's that I've learned how to avoid the early signs of molestation and rape, even child grooming—which I didn't know it was called, at that time. I've unconsciously saved myself from those impending misfortunes.
That's why my grown ass is a virgin and I'm proud of it!
Also, lesson I got for this experience?
Beware of movie titles.