Feb 02, 2007 06:17
"But if [Robert] Knight displays an obsession with the mechanics of sodomy--simultaneously mesmerized and sickened by the tumescent, pistoning images of it that must loop through his head on a near-constant basis--he is notably impervious to an image he conjures when I submit as how HIV is transmissible though normative, upstanding, God-sanctioned hetersexual congress as well.
"'Not as easily,' he says. 'The vagina is designed to accomodate a penis. It can take a lot of punishment.'
"My regards to Mrs. Knight."
-- David Rakoff, "Don't Get Too Comfortable"
Personally, I love how that entire chapter was about Log Cabin Republicans and that's the paragraph that cracked my shit up.
David, you're moving up in the world.