Remembering the first time...

I was recently listening to some old school stuff that I had on tape. Before you ask, the answer is Yes, Homeboy still has a tape deck. Its useful for when I want to go down memory lane and bring out those old compilations from Samaco Records (remember them?). Anyway I came across the song ‘Tonight is the Night’ by Betty Wright. The song is an intimate and humorous take on her first real life sexual encounter when she was a teenager (click here to listen to a clip of the song from amazon.com).

I’ve also recently come across a blog where in the replies section some dude out of the blue shares information about his first sexual encounter with the house help when he was 15 and she was 20 (talk about child abuse!). Anyways my point is some people will have painful memories of their first time, others embarrassing and some have the kind that they still treasure many years later. Its not uncommon to bring up this topic and people start getting those dreamy eyes (almost like JD from Scrubs!) when they are reminiscing.

Most of us will remember the full name of our first sexual partner and dependent on how long ago it was, probably still refer to them with their full name (I find it interesting how we always refer to certain people using their full name – has anyone come across a reference to Paul McCartney that didn’t include his full name?). I think our first partners are a bit like that, the Toyin Adebayos, Jonathan Adams and Kemi Ojos.

So how does your first encounter shape up ? Fond memories or best forgotten?

I'll leave you with some lyrics from Betty Wright:
........Tonight is the night, That you make me a woman, mmm...You said you’ll be gentle with me, And I-I hope you will, hmm...mmm...I’m nervous and I’m tremblin’, Waitin’ for you to walk in, Tryin’ hard to relax, But I just can’t keep still.....