I think that in many ways, though we are walking around, many of us here are in considerably worse shape than Bauby. He at least was fully conscious of being alive. He was able to write a book communicating by blinking his one eye. Most of us are far less articulate about our erotic and emotional needs than this.
I would ask: Where are we going to learn? Where is the place that the conversation is welcome? If it’s not about sex, where is the place that you can really be your self?
Continued next month.
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