a utopia i would join in a minute is a society which could be communist or capitalist, anything, except that no woman member of it ever underwent sex unless she was hot. pretending to be hot bears a distinct resemblance to self-rape, but it’s a rape accompanied by boredom instead of fear ... he had been married twice, each time to a flawless woman, if their photographs were to be trusted. one of them was thai. the pictures of his exes were propaganda: who were you to resist a man who had won such human gems? denoon once said that if martians conquered the earth and ran an ethnic beauty contest to decide who should be given control of the planet on the basis of sheer beauty, it would go to thai women and cretan men. I remember I said speaking for my fellow colleens I am outraged.
- norman rush, "guilty repose," mating
posted September 25, 2003 in print, sex.