Just like you, I’ve been imagining what life will be like after we set free from our self-quarantine, start to get out and about and up and down, get our sex lives sparking again with somebody else, in the room with us, that’s not a V.R. sex bot construct. We are all wondering what the ‘new normal’ will look like (and for the record, as a professional writer I detest these new-fangled catch-phrases; ‘new normal,’ ‘living my best life,’ ‘feeling some kind of way about something’ and my personal favorite ‘he be woke’). But I fear, more than I fear the actual COVID-19 virus, that the divisions between people will be even more profound after we get the all-clear. From what I am seeing (and I know you are seeing it too) the pandemic has been laid out for us all in deep political lines, with some folks all for quarantining and social distancing for as long as they are told to (and beyond), and folks who have protested against the shut-down all along, and are pretty much chomping at the bit to open the world.
Which brings me to why I feel this Licking Non-Vanilla podcast is as important as are all forms of communication. As you hear me expose with Chris on the show, as you will read in this blog in the weeks to come, as you might tickle across some other of my writings, and certainly as you will recognize from the fact that I have no personal social media presence, I’m not a fan of Facebook, tweeting and twatting, Instagramming, etc. This is just not a way of communicating I want to indulge in. The producers of our podcast certainly caution me about railing too much over the ‘hand that seemingly feeds,’ but it’s just not for me. But if it is for you, then, ‘you do you’ (there’s another new phrase I’ve heard lots recently, mostly from the V.R. sexbots when I try to push them over the allotted time I have paid for). But I do feel, communication is essential, as much as it has been in our past as it will be in our future. I can’t predict that our show will be a form of communication you find important as much as I can’t tell you whose twitter feed will make your day. But I do know, that post the self-quarantine, no matter how we want to conduct our lives, we do need to communicate in the way we feel most comfortable.
For me, I need to sit across my friends at a bistro table. I want to be ‘in-studio’ with Chris more than I ever want to have to record across the net. I miss walking down the street, visiting my favorite deli for my weekly egg sandwich fix, and joking with the folks behind the counter. I damn well want to get to Vegas, visit my client The Erotic Heritage Museum, maybe find a new kink convention across Fetlife that Chris and I can teach at.
Communication, at its best, for me, is being face-to-face with people.
For now, I will take this, writing a blog, recording the shows with Chris as we ready the launch of Licking Non-Vanilla. But boy, when this thing is over, I am sure gonna need a hug!
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