...anything but vanilla please!

Once upon a time, back before anyone let the horse out of the barn, there was vanilla sex. It was only the Genesis of sexuality but then ...there was light! This is where slavery isn't something to flee from! (Appropriate topic for Passover.)

While taking shortcuts to get to the "meat and potatoes" might be a way of life for some, it usually comes as no surprise that anyone with creativity (or Attention Deficit) cannot do the vanilla thing. So, what goes on in the bedroom (why stop here?), stays in the bedroom? ...especially if there's a few mooring cleats around an 8 foot window in the bedroom. In this position, creativity would be needed to be vanilla. Water paint and a shower curtain can be the canvas to complete the memory.

But what about those who just cannot conform to society or social norms, and make sexual taboos a way of life? Polyamory and am bisexuality and an array of other "disorders" may not be a comfortable lifestyle for "the majority" but the minority are thriving among their own kind.

It takes a community to raise a kid and so the children within these arrangements are loved, nurtured, and cared for far beyond the "normal" family unit. The typical family unit in the USA has managed to put walls and fences up to protect those within and their material possessions. This group becomes isolated with an occasional outing to the country club, church or mall. Not so the children raised within the creative family unit. There is a definite foster of sensitivity to the needs of others, consideration beyond the "me-go" world, and open-mindedness as a core value.

I have been fortunate to have made the acquaintance of of one individual who had the intelligence to be among the first to have completed the LSAT with no errors. After scoring his law degree from UC-Berkley, he went on to become one of the few who would facilitate legal services to the "tranny" community. Arguing cases before the Supreme Court and establishing a law office in Hawaii which proclaims its'own message of freedom from "the establishment." His complex sexuality followed in the same nontraditional patterns. For many, being his companion would require a different sort of logic, a logic that detours from the mainstream in both philosophy and activity. For myself it was a fine-tuned intuition which allowed me to enjoy fully his personality. If I had been a conformist a "merging of the minds" would never have been possible. It's certain that not many could come to an understanding of this social language as it is something very difficult to learn without having a predisposition. In other words if you have to learn "it," you won't be living "it" in its' natural state. By seeking to define, you've missed the whole point.

And so the rest of the world can only sneer and insinuate their path is hell bound. This is not the lifestyle for the rank-and-file soldier of an established ethos.

Looking from the cleat-studded window, I view a world that others may never know. I'm content on this side of the window and feel a cold pity for those "others" within the landscape below. If only for a blink of an eye, you could sense this world!