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In case you were wondering how that Puberty Survivors Support Forum went …

POSTED: Friday, June 19, 2009, 5:33 PM
Filed Under: Arts
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Earlier this month, Molly Eichel clued you in on the North Philadelphia Puberty Survivors Support Forum — a weirdo art event wherein people discussed their funniest, worst, most life-ruining puberty stories. It complimented John O'Donnell's exhibit "Salad Days," a multimedia installation at FLUXspace that explored that horrible time in everyone's life. In case you were wondering how it went, the ladies over at the artblog have a great summary:

The group was predominately female, however the Moderator did a bang-up job eliciting juicy prepubescent recollections from the males in the group. One topic where the females were unanimously clueless, and the males in absolute secret agreement was ‘The best way to hide a spontaneous erection that popped-up at the wrong time’ — ‘Tuck it under the belt’.

Other topics during the nearly three-hour long meeting ranged from periods to first ejaculations, from training bras to first encounters with pornography, and everything in between.  Irony and utter-relief ruled the tone of the room, and everyone seemed to feel lighter as they related to their peers’ recollections of that trying period of young-adult life.

Sounds, um, uncomfortable. But funny. Check out O'Donnell's great works here.

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