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An article on Slate about whether or not Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy is suitable reading for children (what with all those threats to sever children from their souls) delves back into our generation's pre-teen, probably inappropriate, "literary" obsession: V.C. Andrews's Flowers in the Attic series. The books have sold 100 million copies (and counting) and introduced impressionable young girls everywhere to all-in-the-family incest (as the Slate article points on, the incest begins on page six!).

We spent our formative years reading (and dog-earing) Flowers in the Attic, and despite the awful prose, we have nothing but fond memories of Chris and Cathy's kinky sibling act in the attic. Sure, it left us both with an enduring, um, fondness for hot Hollywood incest scenes, but hey, it's all fantasy, right?

In real life, even the idea of first cousins squicks us. (Even though Bach, Edgar Allan Poe, Darwin, Einstein, and Rudy Guiliani all did it. Actually, especially because Rudy Guiliani did it.) But the brother-sister blonde-on-blond scene between Patsy Kensit and Douglas Henshall in the movie Angels and Insects? Yeah, we each had to take some me-time after that one. As for practical sex tips, we got those from Judy Blume's Forever. Exhibit A: first-time sex on a white rug is always a bad idea. Exhibit B: never douse your boyfriend's penis in after-shave. Exhibit C: his name is Ralph. Be nice to him.

So, do tell...which book got your heart racing under the duvet back in junior high? And which literary sex scenes from your formative years still play out in your sex life today?