“Desire and war make a recipe for hot, frenzied sex—but not intimacy. In my late teens and early twenties, intimacy was beyond me; my needs were too urgent, too desperate. It had to be obvious to the women I was seeing then that they were a haven for me, shelter from the storm. Maybe that was enough. Maybe I was a haven for them as well.”
Jessie Kornbluth describes his struggles with intimacy and desire in his essay “Sex and Drugs Made Me A Man.” See him discuss his experiences and more on 11/17/09 in NYC: http://thegaycenternycreading.eventbrite.com/
“The Good Men Project: Real Stories from the Front Lines of Modern Manhood,” a collection of 31 first-person stories that ask the question “What does it mean to be good man?” On sale now: http://bit.ly/BuyTGMP
The Good Men Project is a book, a documentary film, a discussion, a charity. Proceeds from the book and film (available on DVD) go to benefit at-risk men and boys.
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