Obviously, as a parent I would do that, but it was what we felt in those last months was critical to safeguard our family unit. Today, it was easy to...rationalise that during the last two years I had not functioned as a whole human being, but even in my darkest hours I had tried to be a good father, I knew that I could never take the place of their mother, but I the fact that I loved them was never in doubt. I always made sure that there was food on the table, the washing and ironing was done,. Sex and the part it plays in human life cannot be ignored. In the case of animals sex plays a simpler and less complex rôle. It is a purely natural and instinctive function whose underlying purpose is the perpetuation of the species. It is not complicated by the many incidental phenomena which result, in man’s case, from psychologic, economic, moral and religious causes. Climate, social conditions, individual modes of life and work, alcohol, wealth and poverty, and other factors affect sexual. I was now 14 and Derek, almost 17. Nothing much had happened between us in that time, the odd blowjob here and there, once or twice venturing to have sex. Id never had a proper relationship with anyone other than Derek, so I considered him a great friend and a sexual partner – Derek however had developed feelings for other people, male and female. It seemed that he was moving on through life, whether or not he cared that he was leaving me behind, longing to be with him in ways that I didnt even. Before him a dirt path led down. He stepped onto it, the bridge's guardrail started just to his left. It was made of heavily dented rusted steel and cement.The sun had come out and the shadows were hard and sharp.Brambles rose on either side of the path. Its dirt was slick and the stones that stuck up through it black and glistening. It veered around a boulder and then back and around to the bridge. Dart nearly jerked him off his feet in her eagerness to get her nose into the bushes.Right under.