Same here. As a child growing up under "protective" Catholic parents in the 1960s, I was sheltered from much of what the real world was about, things my parents were uncomfortable talking about but that I was noticing, like, um, pretty girls. Also civil unrest, literature, movies, etc. Case in point, I was not allowed to see James Bond movies. i also was not allowed to go see anything more serious, like The Graduate. But I could get a pretty good idea what they were about in Mad's parodies of them. I think MAD also helped me start questioning things, those things my parents didn't want me to question, like politicians, teachers, the police, priests, etc. And for those reasons, I often had to sneak the magazine into the house, although I was invariably found out. After a couple of years, my parents gave up the fight. And here I am!