Got a really sweet letter submitted to Cliterati today. We don't have a letters page so figured here's as good a place as any to put it:
I'm a 19 yr old girl from a tiny town in Alabama, USA. I have been brought up in a very religious enviroment, all I've been told about sex by my school and parents, when they said anything at all, is that 'God tells us to wait till marriage, that's what the Bible says so it wasn't written for nothing.' I've been surrounded all my life by the viewpoint that sex was a sin, not something to be explored and enjoyed.
For most of my teens I've had a feeling in me that I couldn't express, a voice screaming that all I'd been brought up to believe about intimacy was a hideous lie. I just want to say a big thank you to all those involved in Cliterati for bringing me color and liberalism in an area which has so far been grey and constrained. It's good to know you're out there, you give me hope that some day maybe this world will shred the sad masquerade of sex as something wrong. Now I must go and wank...
I was dead chuffed. It's nice to think that we're making a difference, however small. 'What did you do for the world today?' 'I helped a 19 year old in Alabama have a wank.' OK, it's not remotely up there with world peace but at least it's something.
It's been the usual sex-filled couple of days: had meetings with Pout and the Lovers' Guide, both of which went well but mean I've got lots of documents to write, was offered a full body massage from a very tasty porn star (One of the blokes we used for the Lovers' Guide mag who I'm helping get involved in voice over work. He was joking. I think.) via text message and wrote another smutty story for Cliterati.
Got to start planning the Cliterati party. It's not happening till the end of August but we've had interest from sponsors who want me to send them a proposal. Basic plan has always been 'Buy some drink, get a DJ, invite people to venue to get hammered, hand a press release to any journos who are coming to find out about the site rather than get the free drinks. Once I've spoke to that journalist, get hammered myself.'
Think that I may need to revise this somewhat.
Posted by emilyd at March 14, 2003 12:56 PM