“Yes, the Church doesn’t let girls be naked until they’re married. But the Americans do and they take their clothes off all the time and let their pictures go into magazines and then men go into shops and buy them with copies of History Today or Stamps Monthly so they don’t look like perverts.” “What’s a pervert?” I asked. “It’s someone who’s a sex maniac,” he explained. “Oh.” “I’m going to be a pervert when I grow up,” he continued. “So am I,” I said, eager to please. “Perhaps we could be perverts together.”
