Joe, you have a year or two on me but my catholic upbringing taught me quite categorically that sex outside of marriage was a sin.

Fortunately for me the priest who used to drink my Dad's whisky also used to slag off my Dad. Like any five year old my Dad was my hero and therefore I took a dislike to the priest and to the church.

I had managed by the age of ten to distance myself from the church although that meant I had a very rough time at my Grammar School run by Monks. It must have taken a further 30 years before I finally managed to shake off all the shackles. (I think)