I must have been 18 at most, probably a couple of years younger. The multiple sexual bits were absolutely the most fascinating parts - themes like parenthood, marriage, relationships of all kinds, feminism kind of flew over or were just half-noticed. But it was a strong, experience, varied, fiercely tolerant, if not of intolerance, of narrowness. All these years after one still approves and enjoys, a great humanistic text. I'm sure it does not tick all the correct boxes - and at the same time it actually does if seen with generosity, with imagination, with the selfsame attitude the text itself celebrates.
