Simon has been throwing sex parties for 25 years now-the early ones, held before 1996, the year antiretrovirals were approved, were mostly jerk-off parties
Pills have been crucial in facilitating this mindset, but there’s more to liberation than medicine. In talking to people who attend and throw sex parties, I’ve noticed a proud refusal to live by the heteronormative respectability politics that were so useful in the fight for marriage equality. (Within minutes of sitting down with Tavares, he mentioned off-handedly, “Whenever I see a traditional gay marriage, I want to puke.”) Plus, these parties offer a refuge from the hassles of geo-loaction-app acquired casual sex that has become such a norm amongst gay and bisexual men. Continue reading No Bra performed her dissonant ditty “ sex slaves in the white house