Judy Blume's Forever: the first and last word on teen sex?

James Dawson wonders if Judy Blume’s seminal teen novel Forever is still the best depiction of teenage sex in literature, despite being originally published in 1975. It’s been a major inspirational force James Dawson who tackles his first sex scenes in his new novel All Of The Above

Originally published in 1975, Judy Blume’s teen novel Forever tells the tale of Katherine, a New Jersey teen, and her fledgling relationship with Michael and his now infamous member “Ralph”.

I first read Forever when I was 11-years-old. We were on the Costa Dorada and I had ploughed through the Dean Koontz and Doctor Who paperbacks I’d taken on holiday so, in desperation, borrowed my sister’s beach reads. Needless to say, Forever was an eye opener.

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