When I was just a tad of a lad, many years ago, I would daily skip light-heartedly to a Catholic elementary school. There the good nuns would guide us, educate us, and gently admonish us when we would stray, child-like, from the straight and narrow path.

After eight years I graduated and went on to learn at a high school taught by the Fratres Scholarum Christianiorum -- the Christian Brothers. By then many of us had noticed Certain Bodily Changes and that the young ladies of our sister institution were also experiencing Certain Bodily Changes. These Changes made them objects of greater interest than people whose pigtails we might dip in the inkwell on our desk and indeed many of us would have willingly done more than chastely carry their books home from school while discussing the upcoming sock hop or.

The good Brothers, in their wisdom, brought to our attention a Church-founded, Church-sponsored, and Church-approved organization called "Club 69." The members of this organization made a vow to never, ever, violate the Sixth and Ninth Commandments: the injunctions against adultery and coveting your neighbor's wife. Needless to say, "Club 69" membership cards, tee shirts, and other things became very popular among my classmates until, for some unexplained reason, the Brothers closed down the club.

We were not, I must admit, interested in adultery and coveting another's wife. We were much more interested in some friendly fornication and avoiding wives, especially one of our own.