[contextly_auto_sidebar] One dating app I've used is called SilverDaddies, and my straight friends usually belch a laugh when they hear the name. "What's funny?" I ask, and they never have an answer. Silver threads among the gold? Hair turned quite gold from grief? It isn't Salt-and-Pepper Daddies, although I giggled at age 8 when "salt-and-pepper" was applied to the head of movie heartthrob Jeff Chandler (born Ira Grossel, went to Brooklyn's Erasmus High) by my mom or dad, can't remember which. That was the first time I heard … [Read more...]
A Shroom With a View
"Sex" in a headline could once skew a reader's attention, but I risk vanilla using it here. Grade-schoolers of all nations do porn homework online. That coy teen you meet at your niece's bat mitzvah has fastened on techniques you once only imagined. "Once only imagined" is a familiar phrase, no? What happens to imagination when we walk past the bloody slash on the ground and the other eyes walking with me call to stop. A short time before, my companion and lover said quietly but in amazement, "Look at that big fella!" as an elegant plum … [Read more...]
Our Great-Grandfathers’ Butts
At this unsure moment, sex doesn't seem to be on everyone's lips. A decade ago, the bodies politic were forever getting it on, at least in the then-pulsating media and groovy groves of academe. But now the topic has cooled to family-room temperature. Of course, I'm not sure about actual coital statistics -- so this could be a New York Times trend story. It's like when, as a graduate student, I read that hetero anal sex was unusually popular in Europe during the reign of Napoleon. So were Empire silhouettes. Any statistical … [Read more...]