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Reader Feedback on "Randy Rubes and Lusty Lawyers: Thoughts on City and Country Sex"
To Ms. Levine
I came here because I read of your new controversial book. I like your writing very much, and hope to purchase the book.
FYI: I was an outed gay teen at age 13, in 1970! When I found gay adults, within a year, I have no doubt those liasons saved my life. I have often taken criticism for supporting the right of teens to say "yes".
The topic addressed in your book is one about which the masses are incapable of being rational. But let us not be surprised. Just compare this issue to how baby boomers deal with drugs when it comes to their kids. It sounds very much the same.
Warm regards
KD
--kd
04/11 |
This is a fan letter. I have just discovered your magazine, and the first thing I read was "Rusty Rubes and Lusty Lawyers: Thoughts on City and Country Sex." I really enjoyed it, and can really relate to how one's fantasies and erotic longings are A) shepherded, sluiced and funneled in the country, and B) explicated, elongated, elevated, agitated and frustrated in the city. I was born and raised in rural Bucks County, PA, schooled in Virginia, lived for a year in London, four in New York City, and two in rural France, to say nothing of long visits to Tennessee, Vermont, New Mexico and Washington State along the way. I see now how I've been constantly traversing these city/country sexual boundaries. The stories of sex and how to get it varied WIDELY from place to place, but one example is instructive: I knew a San Francisco gay man when I was in France who walked 80 km round trip to get laid in the nearest big city one weekend; while in the house I stayed in, a seventeen-year-old farm girl was loudly having sex with a boy a year younger than her in the dining room, and I dreamt simultaneously of a hooker I knew outside Vegas and a former hometown girlfriend who was still speaking to everyone in my family, but not to me. My thanks to Judith Levine for letting her mind wander on this subject — it made me laugh deeply at myself, and my various moves.
--TWS
12/31 |
Having grown up in a rural town of 1300 people and escaped as soon as it was practical, I find Levine's observations to be right on target. It is so much easier to enjoy sex when your Aunt Mildred won't be getting the full report by telephone from the neighbors the next morning. It is so much harder to find a mate in the city where everyone doesn't know what he did as a child and what bad habits his grandfather displayed.
--LL
12/29 |
I liked the Judith Levine piece. Insightful and intelligent. I've often wondered about the varying cultural contexts of sex, flirting, body types and attitudes. Life out here in a west coast small town doesn't sound much different. People here hold fast to sexual conservatisms that seem quaint compared to our Seattle counterparts. We experimented years ago and it just caused a lot of problems. There have definitely been some thoughts of loosening things up again, but there is some trepidation. Anyway, thanks again. Nice to learn of your site. Let's not impeach the president! (Even if he is spineless.)
--DPD
12/13 |
I found it to be wonderfully amusing, different and refreshing.
--DC
12/11 |
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