He scared the Hell out of me. He did not believe in sparing the rod. For all I knew he believed in castration, though I really wouldn't have known what that was. All I knew was that I should never act like I knew anything about sex and never speak to a girl if I knew what was good for me.Cut your dad some slack and honor him for his effort to raise you right. You're on FR, so he must have done some things right. For all of his shortcomings (we all have them), he probably saved you a lot of grief down the road (and he probably saved some girls from a lot of grief too, indirectly). The prisons are full of little boys who grew up without a dad who "did not spare the rod".
Who is more likely to think of women as sex objects?
1) A boy/man who has known and interacted with females all his life?
2) A boy/man whose parents sent him to all-boy schools specifically so he could never be around girls, and who never even spoke to one until he started college?