After years of therapy spent trying to convince myself it wasn’t really real…
Damn you, YouTube!
You see, when I was in first grade, what I recalled only as the “Good Touch/Bad Touch Bear” (an awareness video for children to avoid molestation) managed to leave an indelible and haunting stamp on my psyche well into adulthood.
Long after I moved over to the “big kids'” school and started learning more important things (like how I was going to ex-sanguinate every month, that sex wasn’t just rolling around on top of eachother like in the Hollywood movies, and that the two would somehow relate via a painfully confusing last minute 101 with tampons before a very important sixth grade dance), the Bad Touch Bears stuck with me. Unlike the poor quality of the VHS tape on which I watched it, the memory of it stayed clear with me well into my 20’s.
Or so I thought.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJg-jliyhXA
It was Pooh Bear? All along?! So not how I remembered the “bathing suit area” rule…
As a sidenote, as I told the other viewers on Youtube, I thoroughly enjoy how Rabbit shows up halfway through with a pimp hat, cape, and cane, talking about his “tricks”. Sounds like most of the “bad touching ” he does is with the back of his hand….
xoxo
<3~A