Sunday, August 30, 2020

Buhay Pandemya:




cc: I have started exercising my cursive writing skills. I got this Augmented Paper system from Montblanc that allows me to write freehand, upload to my iPad and ‘translate’ into text. It is far from perfect, as you will see in the post below. But rather than edit the text, I am leaving it as is. And letting you figure out what I am actually trying to say. LOL Reading it now makes me wonder if you’ll actually get what I mean. The editing is hilarious at times. The writing is also saved as jpg so you can refer to that... if you can read my handwriting. 

They have now required face shields over face marks. Maybe in the future, this may even extend to fuel-body PPE, all of us looking like astronauts. Is this another of nature's way of showing cis implications of our obsessions with physical beauty as Hallow and truly tumeaningless?


Our fruity has deified all these blessed with physical beauty, symmetrical facial features, etc. We truly worship beauty, and uneld gladly throw money just so we can keep on staring and admiring. Yee nature has always reminded as of the fleeting nature of beauty in the passing of time. all of that passes. Yet we have remained deaf. Beauty, and its anpaxeim Youth, you enshrined. Old and ageing. crudeness, being plain and ordinary take me place or blue. Sidi gene. wit. wisdom are reduced to price-to-haves, maybe.


Suddenly, as much as 60-702 of the face are covered in our day-to-day physical transactions (or peal-wired). Suddenly there is no way, except magle & exceptionally beautiful eyes, that one can judge face value. We are forced to have to listen to each other as we talk. In the physical world, we could we finger judge fared on fist 'physical 'ingressions. I'm que our basis comed force as to still lurk for physical beauty, like in the way I described the eyes earlier, u find other proxies for it like hair, body, clothes, etc. and we would still miss the point of going beyond the physical. But from, we are reduced to a shires of face. Perhaps for some of us, we will start & devalue holes and physical attractiveness and start to aggravate what is "invisible t the eye."





 

Sunday, August 9, 2020

Buhay Pandemya: Is this the end of hookups and casual sex?

It is back to MECQ, back to liquor ban. Another weekend of staying put. Just when I was getting used to Saturdays with c3. And an occasional one at the beach house. 


So it is home improvement time. Having those screens at windows and doors fixed. This would have been so unworthy of a post had it not been for that trabahador from the aluminum maker. Not tall yet had a nice body, shoulders and chest. And what I deduce to be a nice face behind that mask. 


Ugh. I am that deprived. And as I ‘supervise’ him and his companion, I am fantasizing of how the situation would turn sexual. (And how to get rid of that companion LOL)


No, I did not act on it, for so many reasons piled up, one on top of the other. And that brings me to the point of this post - how could one even consider hookups or casual sex when each potential might be carrying COVID?


A friend revealed recently that he managed to hook up anyway. “A Calculated Risk” he says. Risk managed by: having established thru a long history of chatting on G to include his safety protocols, and testing he has been through; being on the receiving end of a blow job; keeping a mask on (no kissing, not even with a plastic sheet in between! Except, of course, during the blow job); immediately washing off with soap and water, etc.  


My praning mind would still consider so many other things.. what if he picked it up on the way to the hookup? And just thinking of all that salivary juice teeming with virus slobbered on the hapless penis. I could go on and on.


Is this nature’s way of championing sex within the confines of a living-together arrangement only?  Yes, in the era of HIV, we have been taught about safe sex. But is there such a thing as safe sex in the era of COVID19? Arms-length (or more) mutual jerk-offs? Or bodies wrapped in plastic? (It seems that the virus has been found in semen, even of recovering patients https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2765654 ) 


I’d love to hear your thoughts about this. Or how you have coped with the situation, sexually.


Painting by Cyndi Belleza, currently hanging on a wall in the beach house.