Re: "You can break a thousand..." Confused by Delany interview.

On 12/19/10 10:17 PM, james_hesperornis wrote:
>   So, I was reading his interview with Looking Glass Magazine, and came upon this:
>
>   "But if you are living the way he---or I, for that matter---was living (and he was going from couch to couch, basically paying for his living space, food, drink, and happy to do it, with sex), with two or three sex parties in a week you can break a thousand very quickly, in a month or notably less."
>
>   The paragraph which precedes this suggests that this number is referring either generally to sexual encounters or specifically to swallows, not, as it might seem when taken out of context, money. The problem is, that comes to an average of over thirty-three per day. The tone of the interview doesn't seem obviously sarcastic or humorous, and an average human being only has so many hands, mouths, and orifices (to mention nothing of the number of other things that need to be done throughout the course of a typical day), so what exactly is he talking about? He mentioned sex parties, so could he be counting anyone who's present at such a party as someone with whom he's had sex? I don't mean to suggest any duplicity, especially since he's always seemed very candid and straightforward about e
 verything, but I'm confused! Does anyone else have an opinion on this?
>
> Here's a link to the article: http://www.lookingglassmagazine.com/observatory/?p=118

Sex doesn't have to be defined by orgasms.  At sex parties, gay 
bathhouses, or sex clubs, interacting sexually with a large number of 
men is totally doable, even today.  Thirty in an evening, for example.  
Keeping that up day in and day out?  Well, that's what the 70s were 
about for many gay men.  It's not an exaggeration.  My ex-husband 
frequented bathhouses in the late 70s and early 80s and his numbers were 
equally astronomical.

In some of the clubs, all you had to do was kneel down and man after man 
would avail himself of you.  It was a different time, and everything SRD 
says about it is true.  He was there.

SRD's number of lifetime sexual partners is only staggering when viewed 
in the context of today's post-AIDS world, or in the context of 
heterosexuality.  Gay sex in the 70s and early 80s was different.  You 
couldn't get pregnant and the worst disease you could get was curable 
with a shot.  So why not have as much sex as you could?

-- Jay
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Jay Schuster <[email protected]>//


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