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What a shame for all of you enfants.
I remember an age of sex without latex.
God. It was so hot.
I feel really, really sorry for an entire generation that has been raised to think of everything as a threat and in need of sanitization.
You remember it a little differently than I do.
I remember weekends where friends would disappear for days into the baths with a can of Crisco and poppers.
At the time, we thought that was liberation. In retrospect, we were just caged animals who were still stuck behind closed doors. We didn't dare hold hands or kiss in public. When you went out to the bars, you were always looking over your shoulder for a tire iron or a tossed beer bottle. Long term relationships were an anomaly. We considered the clap and urethritis to be a rite of passage. Marriage was something that never crossed our minds.
If the whole nightmare of the 80s did anything for us, it made us realize that this bullshit about Gay Pride Week was just another pipe dream. A week? I'm sorry- I want the whole fucking year. Straight people get the whole year- why should I settle for less?
^ post #9. I think it's very seldom acknowledged the ways in which the advent of HIV/AIDS twisted the sexual development of generations of us. I think we still haven't gotten stuff adjusted quite right. We should all play cautious and stay healthy, but it's not like a hefty price hasn't been paid.
Like everything else, it goes in cycles. It's just a little disillusioning to see a generation after us that seems to be more self-indulgent and reckless. But we had to learn, too.

