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elfsOn MSNBC this morning Joe Scarborough shuddered in horror at the idea that Stormy Daniels might have one or more "dick pics" sent to her by Donald Trump. I know, I know, you really don't want to think about Donald Trump's penis. But bear with me for a moment, because there are two competing impulses here, and one of them is fair and one of them is wrong.
The fair one is the idea of Donald Trump humping away at anyone. From what we know of his habits— his germophobia, his discomfort with his own body, his self-centered inability to care about other people— sex with Trump basically reduces you to an onahole.
But the other one is reacting with distaste to the idea of an elderly man having sex. And that one's not fair at all.
If you're not familiar with LemonParty, it was a shock site and the game was to trick people into visiting it and watching their reaction when they did. It was a short looping gif of three elderly men having sex. It was prominent about a decade ago, when I was in my early 40s, and I did not have the reaction most people did; my reaction was "Yeah, go for it dudes, life is short and I hope I'm still going at it like that when I'm in my 70s too!"
Which was not the reaction people expected. (Then again, I have more or less the same reaction to Goatse as Marten Reed's mom, so my calibration is way, way off.) Nobody wants to talk about elderly sex; they'd rather go to Carousel than think about what sex will be like when they're 70. But many of us are going to get to 70, and it's damned unfair to say "Oh, old people, they shouldn't have the pleasures the rest of us enjoy." Sure they should, to the best of their ability.
Even Donald Trump.
The fair one is the idea of Donald Trump humping away at anyone. From what we know of his habits— his germophobia, his discomfort with his own body, his self-centered inability to care about other people— sex with Trump basically reduces you to an onahole.
But the other one is reacting with distaste to the idea of an elderly man having sex. And that one's not fair at all.
If you're not familiar with LemonParty, it was a shock site and the game was to trick people into visiting it and watching their reaction when they did. It was a short looping gif of three elderly men having sex. It was prominent about a decade ago, when I was in my early 40s, and I did not have the reaction most people did; my reaction was "Yeah, go for it dudes, life is short and I hope I'm still going at it like that when I'm in my 70s too!"
Which was not the reaction people expected. (Then again, I have more or less the same reaction to Goatse as Marten Reed's mom, so my calibration is way, way off.) Nobody wants to talk about elderly sex; they'd rather go to Carousel than think about what sex will be like when they're 70. But many of us are going to get to 70, and it's damned unfair to say "Oh, old people, they shouldn't have the pleasures the rest of us enjoy." Sure they should, to the best of their ability.
Even Donald Trump.
