"Got Time To F*ck Me?"

Some narratives around marriage, relationships, and sex.

Like most human beings (I would guess and argue), I’m fascinated by sex and sexuality and sexual morality and all the various things tied into that. For a long time, I resisted writing about those things, because I was often trying to use my writing as a lead generation tool for the work I did, and I felt like corporate types that could pay me would recoil from seeing bylines and headlines about sex. I gave up caring about that a few years back, and I’ve since written about sex and related concepts dozens of times.

If you read some of the stuff I write semi-consistently, I just (a few moments ago) wrote an article about going on an Alaskan cruise last week (Holland America line, Westerdam ship).

Well, while on that cruise I talked to about 10–12 different people about writings I’ve done, and I would say (surprisingly, perhaps), a chunk of them were actually interested in the process of writing and what people find intriguing among the things I’ve written. Weirdly, I had a couple of different conversations about this specific article and the ideas behind it: The False Emancipation of Motherhood.

We also talked a bit about this article, which is somehow at 46 comments and is the article making me the most money currently within the Medium Partner Program.

That second article there is essentially about sex as a chore and the expectations of marriage and relationships as regards intimacy. This is a huge topic for most people, but one that a lot of people utterly bury as a discussion.