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A New Politics of Intimacy The Purchase of Intimacy I owe the consideration of this topic to a good online female friend, Madame Roosevelt, a publicly proclaimed whore, who recently posed a question about the ethics of prostitution. Let’s just say that she and I disagree. So, to the question: Can one engage in the world’s oldest profession…
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Not too long ago I posed a question about sex work and polyamory on a poly site I am a member of. My question was whether people in the poly community saw any relationship between these two ways of sexually relating to the world. Many people were intrigued, but quite a number thought I was…
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As a frequent reader of sex columns in Medium, one of the most common stories I run across is of a woman who does sex work of one sort or another writing to defend her choices. The main motivation for sex work among most women, both on Medium and elsewhere, is that the money is…
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For a long time I’ve suspected that I might be gay or bisexual. Years and years ago when I lived in NYC as a boy I used to wander down Christopher Street–then ground-zero for gay culture–and be fascinated and curious about the leather culture that seemed to dominate the street back then. My boy-on-boy experiences…
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News has broken today of groundbreaking for a town to be called Doggy Sparrow in South Carolina. Doggy Sparrow will be located near Love Angel Valley where in 2002 the obscure Wrong Sisters established a cemetery for deniers of global warming. Wilma Wrong, (Olive Wrong’s sister) was quoted as saying “This here cemetery is for…
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Today is a great day for word and literature lovers the world over. George the “misunderestimated” is leaving office. The man who more than any other has made a virtue of stupidity will be gone forever, hopefully never to be heard from again.
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Enrique Penalosa, the former mayor of Bogota, has a wonderful Q & A in the New York Times in which he claims that “sidewalks are the basis of democracy.” He hardly needs to say more—he is the angel of urbanism. There is no clearer statement of urban values than the idea that walkable, high-density core…
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One recent development in urbanism is the idea of “naked streets”. This is not, as one might wish it to be, a haven for urban nudists, but the idea that when all forms of separation between the street and the sidewalk is removed–when the first priority does NOT go to the car–streets are safer. The…
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Cars• melt the planet by being the key driver of global warming!• bring war, corruption, and impoverishment on an global scale (because of oil)• kill people directly (48,000 per year in the US alone)• promote social isolation• hide the true cost of suburban life• make people fat, encouraging a stigma against them, and contributing to…
Charles Durning Carroll 