This is the American Librarian Association's annual Banned Books Week, and as an American librarian, I feel duty-bound to make note of the occasion. Boo on censorship!

Although, I must admit, I'd be rather pleased to one day become a banned author.... what cachet! Is that terribly hypocritical of me?

In Goddess of the Hunt, Lucy (like many a historical romance heroine) has a naughty book. In the course of the novel, she discovers some limitations of book learning and she passes The Book to her friend, who is the heroine of my novel-in-progress.

Isn't this how a lot of us learned about the facts of life - passing dogeared books from friend to friend? I know I learned a lot more from novels than from health class or "the talk." (Actually, now that I think about it, I'm not sure I ever got "the talk.")

I've been trying to remember my first naughty book. I think it must have been Wifey, by Judy Blume, which I'd imagine many of us stumbled across accidentally while looking for the sequel to Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. But at the time I read it - probably 10 or 11 - I had no clue what any of it meant. It all went right over my head. From there, I think I graduated to the VC Andrews books in 7th grade. I remember reading a passage that went something like, "She put her hand where she thought it would pleasure him most, and then she put his hand where it would pleasure her most." And I remember puzzling long and hard, speculating about just which places those were. LOL.

So, today's TMI Tuesday question:

What was your first naughty book? Did it fill in some gaps in your education, or raise more questions than it answered? Have you ever considered that someday your book may be some girl's first naughty book?