in an ideal world

times square as it might be in an alternative universe--more like it was--sex everywhere--less like it was--sex reduced to spectacle, to vicarious enjoyment, to the purient and representational. i want to see that big cock being sucked on the subway car next to me, or in the subway restroom, or in the showers or steam room of my gym--the way things used to be. i'd even settle for it on a billboard.

i moved to nyc in the mid-90s, when times square was just beginning to be killed off by giuliani and his corporate titans. the place had a pulse, a vibe. the prostitutes on 8th avenue used to proposition me as i'd walk by at 1 or 2 or 3 in the morning, returning from my carousing. i'd say: "babes, if you don't know a gay guy when you see one, you're in the wrong profession." 

this used to be a city where sex wasn't completely privatized and forced into the bedroom or locked up behind seedy doors. new york was an adult space. it's fun to fantasize what the world would look like if the binary that imprisons sex in the private and runs it out of the public space would fall apart. why is it okay to eat in public but not to masturbate or have sex? they are both fulfilling human drives.



europeans think nothing of seeing naked breasts in public. what if we thought nothing of seeing a hard cock in public? ...being sucked? ...fucking? woof! would people stop to look as they do in some of these pics? or would they look away bored, or even walk on by, as they do in other pics here? perhaps both. perhaps it'd depend on who was "doing it." one thing's for sure: the world would be a whole lot more fun and interesting.