Mireille Silcoff

Well, I would say that I started really young in terms of being a kind of cultural animal and a social animal. So I was working by the age of 13. I entered the club scene by the time I was 14 or 15. Very young. I was in a rush, ever so slightly unparented. I mean, by today's standards, 13. phenomenally unparented.

Well, I would say that I started really young in terms of being a kind of cultural animal and a social animal. So I was working by the age of 13. I entered the club scene by the time I was 14 or 15. Very young. I was in a rush, ever so slightly unparented. I mean, by today's standards, 13. phenomenally unparented.

And so I feel like I lived the Gen X experience, as we would say here in Quebec, au bout, which means to the living end. I was a music journalist. I was a club reporter. So I wrote about nightclub culture. I had a rave fashion line. I was a voguer in a voguing house.

And so I feel like I lived the Gen X experience, as we would say here in Quebec, au bout, which means to the living end. I was a music journalist. I was a club reporter. So I wrote about nightclub culture. I had a rave fashion line. I was a voguer in a voguing house.

Vogue dancer. So I did all those things, right?

Vogue dancer. So I did all those things, right?

The experience of the Gen X child, for some cultural reasons and some just deep, deep economic societal kind of reasons, was much more free range than it is right now. So by the time I had sex, which was at the age of 15, I felt like a grown-up. I felt like this person who was working, who was earning her own money, who had experienced so much already. Mm-hmm. We couldn't wait to be adults.

The experience of the Gen X child, for some cultural reasons and some just deep, deep economic societal kind of reasons, was much more free range than it is right now. So by the time I had sex, which was at the age of 15, I felt like a grown-up. I felt like this person who was working, who was earning her own money, who had experienced so much already. Mm-hmm. We couldn't wait to be adults.

We just wanted it so badly.

We just wanted it so badly.

I mean, kids started young. So I remember in grade eight in my high school, who had had oral sex, who had not had oral sex. I always wanted to be a bit of a fabulon. So I kind of wanted to be ahead of the curve, like a fabulon. kind of, you know, very sophisticated person. I was dead set on that kind of persona from a very young age.

I mean, kids started young. So I remember in grade eight in my high school, who had had oral sex, who had not had oral sex. I always wanted to be a bit of a fabulon. So I kind of wanted to be ahead of the curve, like a fabulon. kind of, you know, very sophisticated person. I was dead set on that kind of persona from a very young age.

And so I just wanted to be out there and, like, doing what everybody else was doing, really at the cutting edge of whatever sexual experience was at, you know, in 1980-whatever. And so I just remember going straight from never having kissed a boy to... Basically having sex in the span of about a year and a half.

And so I just wanted to be out there and, like, doing what everybody else was doing, really at the cutting edge of whatever sexual experience was at, you know, in 1980-whatever. And so I just remember going straight from never having kissed a boy to... Basically having sex in the span of about a year and a half.

I don't think I thought a lot about my pleasure. I think I thought a lot about being a sexual person, about pleasing my partners. I think that was a very huge thing that I thought about a lot, of coming off a certain way. The way being mature? Mature, sophisticated, up for anything, not somebody who would be oversensitive about anything. I really wanted to come off as a tough person. Yeah.

I don't think I thought a lot about my pleasure. I think I thought a lot about being a sexual person, about pleasing my partners. I think that was a very huge thing that I thought about a lot, of coming off a certain way. The way being mature? Mature, sophisticated, up for anything, not somebody who would be oversensitive about anything. I really wanted to come off as a tough person. Yeah.

I kind of think about sex in the 90s as being this crazy jungle. Yeah, tell me about it because I wasn't around then. Yeah, it was not good. I think that you had the world that the 60s opened up, but then you also had...

I kind of think about sex in the 90s as being this crazy jungle. Yeah, tell me about it because I wasn't around then. Yeah, it was not good. I think that you had the world that the 60s opened up, but then you also had...

had those people who had opened up the world of free love in all the positions of power, in what was on TV, in what was in film, in what was going to make it onto the radio, et cetera, et cetera. So free love suddenly transferred and translated and transmuted and kind of like insinuated itself into what feels like every corner of the culture.

had those people who had opened up the world of free love in all the positions of power, in what was on TV, in what was in film, in what was going to make it onto the radio, et cetera, et cetera. So free love suddenly transferred and translated and transmuted and kind of like insinuated itself into what feels like every corner of the culture.