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

"james_hesperornis" <[email protected]> Mon, 20 Dec 2010 03:51:22 -0000
Newsgroups gmane.culture.sf.delany
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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@...>//
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