Re: "You can break a thousand..." Confused by Delany interview.
"james_hesperornis" <[email protected]> Mon, 20 Dec 2010 03:51:22 -0000
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Thank you for the reply, though this post is only meant to clarify that, yes, I do realize a mouth is an orifice. I can't believe how lazily I wrote that! I'm going to blame it on poor sleep and pretend it didn't happen. --- In [email protected], Jay Schuster <jay@...> wrote: > 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 > -- > Jay Schuster <jay@...>// > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] >