Despite my better judgment, I love the Sex subreddit. It’s a wild whirlpool of weirdness. Sometimes I go there hoping to dole out advice on vibrators and blowjobs, and find myself suddenly writing a philosophical essay about the function of pleasure in the world, or whatever. For today’s newsletter I thought it would be fun to answer a few of these bigger, more esoteric questions, plucked directly from the internet hellhole that is Reddit. Enjoy! (Also, while I have your attention, did you know that you can gift a subscription to this newsletter to someone in your life for the holidays if you so choose?)
When I took a year off between high school and university because I didn’t know what I wanted to study, I spent a lot of time heeding little twinges of emotion that led me in one direction or another.
This seemed as sensible a decision-making strategy as any. See a documentary about sign language interpreters and feel a stirring of interest? Make a note of it. Read an article about flower arranging and feel an achy pull? Write it down. Hear a story about a friend winning a theatre award and feel a dark sadomasochistic envy? File it away.