Crazed lunatic, ax murderer

Stephan Pastis’s Pearls Before Swine comic strip for 8/5: Dating tip: avoid crazed lunatics; and while we’re on the subject, ax murderers too — when on offer in the sexual marketplace, let caution be your watchword Now, as for ax murderers, return with me to 1969 and my first male lover, Larry. I was in fact his first male lover as well. We both had had sexual experiences with other men, but what developed between us was a passionate connection of affection as well as raw sex, and I moved him into my household — along with my wife, Ann (yes, it was a gigantically messy situation in which I behaved very badly, while Ann and Larry carried themselves off as genuinely nice adults) — but as a resident in the guest bedroom. A situation that could not last; Larry eventually moved out of the house (but not out of my life) and, quite reasonably, began to cast about for a way of living in which I was not the central figure. Suddenly: the specter of, omigod, gay dating. And here I have to break…