Nascent Sexuality Polaroid Study

Polaroids+ Google Maps+ Reliving your awkward teenage sexuality= FASCINATING. Nate Smith Igor has really done something here. A screenshot: This th...

Polaroids+ Google Maps+ Reliving your awkward teenage sexuality= FASCINATING.

~~Nate Smith~~ Igor has really done something here. A screenshot:

This thing is too big to really detail here, so you have to go look at it here, in all its glory.

I will include some of the evidence.

813 Chalfonte Dr.
This
is the house I spent the first 12 years of my life in. Despite the fact
that I have not lived there in 15 years does not change the fact that
it still feels like home. I was girl crazy very early. In preschool I
was in love with a girl named Bette who I asked to marry me. She said
yes. One time we were hanging out in my basement and I went into a
closet and took off all clothes and then I opened the door so she could
see me naked. Her reaction? She told my mom on me. After I went to
kindergarden I never saw her again. Last I heard she had joined a Latino gang.

325 Mansion Dr.

In
the 1st grade I met the next love of my life. Her name was Maris. I
thought of nothing but her from 1st-3rd grade. That was three years of
my life… when I was 9. It seemed like my entire life was spent on
that girl when I was that age. She lived at 3-2-5 Mansion Drive. I
always remembered that because it rhymed. I had this book that had a
photo of a naked boy in it, and I showed it to her because I thought
she would be turned on by that or something. Even when I was this young
I knew I liked boobs and sex and that I knew that these things were not
available to me as a 3rd grader. I used to fantasize about meeting her
again when she was in college and had boobs. I run in to Maris from
time to time. She lives in New Jersey and came to see the band I manage
a few times in the city. I wanted to make out with her because she was
my first real serious crush. Unfortunately she was not so into that
idea and she told a mutual friend that she stopped hanging out with me
because of my failed attempts.

Playboy House

I
heard a rumor at school when I was in the 2nd grade that this kid Sean
found his dads old Playboys and buried one of them in his back yard
under a bush. As you can see from the map he lived pretty far from me.
I knew my mom would never let me travel there on my own, so when my
grandmother was babysitting me I told her I was going for a bike ride
around the neighborhood. My friend Marshall and I got on our bikes and
made the journey to his house. We snuck into his back yard and dug up
the Playboy. It was wet and it smelled very mildewy. We ripped out some
pages and hid them in our shoes. We couldn’t bike all the way back
because it was up hill all the way and we were little kids so we called
my parents, (who had returned home and were freaking out that my
grandmother had lost us) and got them to pick us up at a park up the
street. I remember sitting in the bathtub feeling extremely guilty
about the whole thing and I told my dad what I had done. He just asked
me what I thought and was not mad. I carried those scraps of paper
around with me everywhere after that and to this day the mildew smell
takes me back to that time. Also, to this day, my grandmother is
constantly reminding me about the time my parents yelled at her because
Marshall and I escaped. Now THAT I feel guilty about.

1st Speeding Ticket

When
I met Shanna I was lifting weights after school every day. My brother
did the play, and our school was a half hour away from our house so I
would wait for him at school and lift and then drive him home. As soon
as I started kissing on Shanna I would drive as fast as I could over to
her house make out with her for 45 minutes and then drive back and pick
up my brother. One day I was zooming a long Quaker Lane on the way to
her house and I was stopped for my first speeding ticket. A long with
the fact that I had never had a ticket before and I was scared to death
of my parents reaction, I was no where near where I was supposed to be
and I had no idea how I was going to explain where I was to my parents.
When I showed up to Shanna’s house I was visibly upset. I sat down with
her and that is when she decided to inform me that she could no longer
hang out with me because she was into my best friend. Her and Marshall
started dating two days later.

Topless Polaroid Forest
Chanelle
also probably created the defining moment of my life. While we were
dating she had to return home to Hawaii for a month. She did not want
me to stray from her during that time so she bought me a Barbie themed
Polaroid camera and let me take naked photos of her with it. They were
the first naked pictures I ever took. She then told me I could take as
many pictures of girls naked I wanted to as long as I didn’t touch
them. I went around to all the girls who liked me and took Polaroids of
them. After that whenever I was in a relationship I used nude photos as
a way of flirting with girls, without cheating on the ones I was
dating. I think I felt like after a lifetime of being ignored by girls,
taking these topless photos seemed to be some sort of validation. Chanelle and I broke up when I went to college, but we ended up living in Richmond, VA so I used to see her all the time.