Comfort

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.
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