Road to Elsewhere, Excerpt #17: Sex Education (Part Deux)

Reader discretion advised. Contains beach bunnies, Anais Nin, and a filthy excerpt from James Salter. I, however, remained unaffected and untouched.

A few years after my sexual instruction from my dad, we visited Cape Cod National Seashore, where I employed binoculars to gain a closer look at the bikini beauties frisking about us. My mom became visibly cross as I did this, so my dad pulled me aside to explain that this wasn’t the kind of bird watching I should do at the beach.

Or, at least admit to, …