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Even at this stage, however, he was attracted to girls of his own age, the first he has met: 'two blonde girls, already puppyishly pretty, whose names and bodies were to distract and haunt me for the next fifteen years of my life. Poppy and Jo ... '. From early years, boys have a natural, usually healthy curiosity about girls (and vice-versa)- especially their bodies. We see this in several episodes in Cider with Rosie. ' Laurie and his gang shout from their lavatories over the wall to the girls' lavatories - shouts which are clearly full of sexual innuendo (judging by the girls' responses) but equally clearly are about things the boys comprehend only very dimly!
From early years, boys have a natural, usually healthy curiosity about girls (and vice-versa)- especially their bodies. We see this in several episodes in Cider with Rosie. ' Laurie and his gang shout from their lavatories over the wall to the girls' lavatories - shouts which are clearly full of sexual innuendo (judging by the girls' responses) but equally clearly are about things the boys comprehend only very dimly! Then there is the episode of Miss Flynn. There is a considerable element of prurience, or less than healthy sexual curiosity, in Laurie's attitude here.
It is at this point that Lee turns aside for a couple of pages from the principal material of his section to make a sweeping comment on 'crime and punishment'. The gist of his view is that the young people of his village were able to grow up in a natural way, without the intervention and interference of outside authority. If punishment was 31 required for a particular transgression, then the villagers or parents provided it; it could be over and done with in a few minutes, or in some cases could last for years.