The crime of sex was like guilt by association-- not visible to the eye of the outsider, but an act that could be rather easily conjectured. Consequences would make it manifest...
He was the concrete embodiment on my more abstract desire to be "free". By which I meant-- if I'd been pressed to admit it-- sexually free. The desire for this kind of freedom subsumed every other.
Joyce Johnson, Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir
I'd learned myself by the age of sixteen that just as girls guarded their virginity, boys guarded something less tangible which they called Themselves.
Joyce Johnson, Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir
And "Why I Like Complicated Positions", courtesy of [b]oink.
