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When Puppy Love Became a Howling Dog
When Puppy Love Became a Howling Dog
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Episodes from the adolescent life of author David Hunter, chronicling the excitement of a boy’s first encounter with fad-fashion, the weapons and wheels that mark his entry into the ranks of young adulthood, and the continual quest for romantic partners (with the inevitable heartbreak that follows).
A note from the author:
This book contains what I have come to think of as "an odyssey of adolescence." There were no exact markers, no well-defined lines of demarcation to separate childhood from adolescence, of course. In the first three chapters…you will find me in a sort of gray area, a no man's land—not quite into adolescence but more than a child.
In the chapter which gives this book its name, I expound on my passion for a girl named Charlotte as the time when I made the final passage from the soft, fuzzy fields of child-like puppy love into the frontier of the urges and desires that separate children from adolescents.
To me, When Puppy Love Became a Howling Dog seems an apt metaphor for what happens when biological forces send young boys looking for mates and fighting for status, though they have not the slightest idea of what is really happening.
As I began to write about this phase of my life, I was somewhat surprised at the number of chapters which had to do with the struggle between my ever-growing libido and society's campaign to pretend that such feelings suddenly appear full-blown only when young people are old enough to be self-supporting.
There are valid reasons, of course—economic, medical and religious—why sexual fulfillment should be put off until human beings are old enough to raise children. But the reasons, valid though they are, don't change the fact that the urge to reproduce is as basic as eating when one is hungry. Nor do they stop enterprising young men and women from trying with all their might to circumvent society's attempts to suppress those all but overpowering demands of the flesh.
A note from the author:
This book contains what I have come to think of as "an odyssey of adolescence." There were no exact markers, no well-defined lines of demarcation to separate childhood from adolescence, of course. In the first three chapters…you will find me in a sort of gray area, a no man's land—not quite into adolescence but more than a child.
In the chapter which gives this book its name, I expound on my passion for a girl named Charlotte as the time when I made the final passage from the soft, fuzzy fields of child-like puppy love into the frontier of the urges and desires that separate children from adolescents.
To me, When Puppy Love Became a Howling Dog seems an apt metaphor for what happens when biological forces send young boys looking for mates and fighting for status, though they have not the slightest idea of what is really happening.
As I began to write about this phase of my life, I was somewhat surprised at the number of chapters which had to do with the struggle between my ever-growing libido and society's campaign to pretend that such feelings suddenly appear full-blown only when young people are old enough to be self-supporting.
There are valid reasons, of course—economic, medical and religious—why sexual fulfillment should be put off until human beings are old enough to raise children. But the reasons, valid though they are, don't change the fact that the urge to reproduce is as basic as eating when one is hungry. Nor do they stop enterprising young men and women from trying with all their might to circumvent society's attempts to suppress those all but overpowering demands of the flesh.
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