I remember my father showing me how to skin a squirrel when I was very young, possibly eight. And of course I was taught how to cut up a chicken not much older than that.
We were taught dissection in junior high, I think, starting with worms, then crawfish, then frogs.
But I remember my father dissecting a cat when he was in dental school, so I was maybe 6 or 7. I don't think I saw the cat, he must have kept it at school, but I remember him bringing home a scapular - of what I am not sure - possibly human? - it was large - and boiling it to clean it. My mother threw away the pot afterwards.
I do know that being a natural scientist used to be an avocation of gentlemen, as was collecting specimens. My father collected insects, I recall a few boxes of various dead things with labels.
I still don't think you showed your boys pictures of fellatio - they aren't easy to obtain, or at least did not use to be. Of course, now they can see that and more, merely by clicking a button on their computer screen that says they are 21. |
