Physics lab & dark room
Ahh, that brought back some great memories for me. Back when I was studying Physics, I was lucky to be paired up with the only girl in our third-year class for labs one semester. She was tall (about 5'10"), very smart and very very European (Belgian exchange student) - oddly fashionable, exotic (to an Australian), and as far as I could tell never shaved anywhere.
Anyway, as part of physics 20 years ago we had to spend plenty of time exposing photographic film to various beams of elements* and then developing them in the lab darkroom. Well what do two 19-20 year olds do in the dark for a couple of hours every week while we wait for the prints to develop and fix? Once the talking and philosophising runs out, there is plenty of flirting in the dark, then groping, over the bra, under the bra, down the jeans, slipping tongues in and out, listening occasionally if anyone else needed to come in. We never actually went all the way in that darkroom, but we did in a well-lit bedroom later. Sure I could then see all the great curves that I'd only touched before, but it didn't really have the same buzz!
To this day that vinegary smell of acetate and other photographic chemicals gets me going. It probably killed a few brain cells at the time. It probably helped :-)
(* I also find it embarrassing now that I can't really remember what the hell the experiments were about even though I have a PhD in physics; the other darkroom activities were much more interesting!)
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