Thank you, Josie, for your comment and for you support in general. You've read enough of my articles to know I write from my heart as well as my head, and that we are on the same team opposing the patriarchian empire.

It is ironic, isn't it? Sex is absolutely not the point, and yet good will, friendship, and an openness to thoughtful discourse are the royal road to intimacy of all kinds. Which, as you say, they'll never get, because for them relationships are either exercises in power or transactions.