The gift of your body

(tales of man-man sex, some of it in very plain street language, so not for kids or the sexually modest) A story from my times at the gay baths, this one not previously reported on. From 1980, at the Club Baths of Toronto, a night out during the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association in Toronto, at which I gave a paper (“Internal” and “External” Evidence in Linguistics) in a symposium on “The Problem of Data in Linguistics”, with this stable PSA URL. (This URL requires JSTOR access; eventually I’ll create a full copy viewable through this blog, but that’s something of a project, so it might not appear for a while.) The story has a poignant sequel in my current life as a solitary 85-year-old gay man with a lifelong high sex drive, which I’ll put off for a later posting because this one will be lengthy. The Club Baths were large, with many areas, including a large, dark orgy room with several distinct areas (which you could make out once your eyes had accommodated to…