The List Column 1 Item 17 He began by telling me to prepare myself for the "other kind" of intercourse.The List Column 1 Item 17 He began by telling me to prepare myself for the "other kind" of intercourse. Despite all we have been through, we both still did a kind of verbal dance around the concept. "You remember saying how you could prepare yourself. In a special way..." he began. I hadn't actually given him the details, but I knew what he meant. "You mean cleaning myself inside? Behind?" I said. "Yes. I know that kind of- preparation isn't on the List, though." "If it would please you, we can add it. Besides, if the alterna- tive is no preparation, I would prefer to-" "There is that to consider." My, my. So formal. Maybe we haven't left Kansas after all, Toto. No matter how disgustingly anatomical, no matter which--or how many--orifices are penetrated, no matter what glandular secretions or hidden perversions are involved, there is no situation that can't be sanitized by midwestern etiquette. I'll give you an example. Sorry to digress, but I once met a gay activist playwright from Indianapolis who felt he could challenge the homophobic political environment in the midwest by writing plays that highlighted the supposedly more liberal social attitudes of classical Greece and Rome. He is best known for a disastrous satirical farce about a gay gladiator named Felonius Orifice and his twin brother Titus. He had hoped that if his play didn't actually make any money it might at least be accorded the dignity of censorship at the hands of the city commissioners or the chief of police. |