ANNE FRANK RESEARCHERS FIND SEX WRITINGS

AMSTERDAM Researchers using digital technology deciphered the writing on two pages of Anne Frank’s diary that she had pasted over with brown masking paper, discovering four naughty jokes and a candid explanation of sex, contraception and prostitution.

In the passage on sex, Anne described how a young woman gets her period around age 14, saying that it is “a sign that she is ripe to have relations with a man but one doesn’t do that of course before one is married.”

Anne, 13 at the time, wrote the pages in 1942, less than three months after her family went into hiding from the Nazis in a secret annex behind a house in Amsterdam.