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DUFF MCKAGAN: The Birds, The Bees, And My Daughters

October 23, 2008

VELVET REVOLVER/ex-GUNS N' ROSES bassist Duff McKagan has penned the latest installment of his weeky column, which appears every Thursday on Reverb at SeattleWeekly.com. An excerpt follows below.

"Last week, I was faced with a hurdle every parent must eventually face. You see, my wife and I have two daughters, the older one just entering middle school this year. With middle school comes the sudden pressures of acting 'grown up,' looking 'cool,' and talking about. . . wait for it. . . SEX. The dreaded moment has come for me as a father: the moment for THE TALK.

"Somehow it got back to my wife and I that the kids at school have been joking around about sex. 'What the hell does 'joking around' mean?!' said I. Well, apparently middle schoolers are getting pretty damn cavalier regarding the depth of carnal gossip. It seems that there is definitely a different paradigm these days, a higher bar set. Our youth are exposed to way more stuff, thanks to the World Wide Internets. Gone are the days of finding Dad's Playboy under his mattress and getting a five-second perusal of some T and A. To add to the complexity of my personal conundrum, we have been in L.A. for the last few years (during the school year, anyway)."

Read McKagan's entire column at SeattleWeekly.com.

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