When I gave my first blow job, I was six years old. I say ‘gave,’ but it’s hard to give something away before you even know what it is, or that it’s yours to give. Perhaps it’s better to say it was taken. Then again, to say that something is ‘taken’ from you often implies intent on the part of the ‘taker’. And is it any fairer to say that you took something before you knew what it was, or that it belonged to someone else? I can’t say that my brother, who was nine, maybe ten, at the time, had any intent whatsoever to take something from me. I can’t say with any confidence that I wasn’t really taking something from him, and that those few months haven’t continued taking something from the both of us all these years of our lives.