There's not much difference between sexual and romantic
thoughts. Both involve fantasizing. Adolescents fantasize about
a lot of things as do people of all ages. Is it always about sex
or romance? No. I wanted to travel in the TARDIS with Doctor
Who. I also was strongly encouraged to french kiss a girl at 15
that I met on the CB Radio. Tammy "T-Bo". I went along with it.
Wasn't my thing. Was I thinking about sex at 15? Likely
sometimes. All the time? No. But I probably fit the nerd
category: When I was 13/14, I found the Kinsey books on "Sexual
Behavior of the Human Male" and "Sexual Behavior of the Human
Female" in the library and read the statistics on all the
different normals. Hid each of them as I went to the cubicle to
read them. And yes, I read them. So, curious? Sure. Fantasizing?
Yeah. But did I *want it*? Not really. When I *did* have
traditional sex (rather than 'play') I found the whole
experience hysterically funny and nothing like either the movies
that horrified sex or the movies that glorified sex, or the
movies that glorified romance had me led to believe. Never could
take the experience seriously at any times I've had it. Spent
the whole time trying not to laugh.