M. A. Istvan Jr.
Eighty-One Angles on Sex
1
Sex with the toupee on.
2
Environmental exposures, often helped
by fatback and sex trauma, will sprout
hair on the playing field even at seven.
3
Even the sexual organs of family
are open for dinner conversation
once stricken with severe illness.
4
Ignoring the work-aspect of sex work
for the fantasy of really being wanted
and for the turn-on of dominating subhumans.
5
Hoping to duck responsibility
for wanting sex, teen girls lure
boyfriends to put on the pressure.
6
Blooming petals stripped of sexual symbolism.
7
Abuse leaving you confused about your sexuality.
8
Repressing sex helps distract us:
beneath surfaces we thus find
loins instead of oblivion.
9
Many are not going to like sex work
anymore than many like regular work,
but in the end surely it is work.
10
Condemning gay sex on grounds
that it cannot result in babies
even as you bang your wombless wife.
11
Condemning gay sex on grounds
that Leviticus unequivocally forbids it
even as you catch pigskin footballs.
12
Condemning gay sex on grounds
that most animals do not do it
even as you use an electric toothbrush.
13
Good looks taking you into scary sexual territory.
14
Sexual violence as a tactic of torture.
15
Its sexual to the molester,
but not to the little kid
curious about the stiffness.
16
Condemning gay sex on grounds
that it is not natural behavior
even as you take “unnatural” drugs to avoid “natural” death.
17
Condemning gay sex on grounds
that it is not what most people do
even as you practice the yabajar.
18
Is it bad, really, when sex becomes
just something to do, like sending
birthday cards to the grandkids?
19
Nausea in the teen, a self-rocking need
for bath and home, after the sex symbol
tested the truth of her hysteria.
20
Okay with only getting sex because you are a fetish.
21
Puzzled about how to approach sex without alcohol.
22
We stay away from in-laws—sibling in-laws
of our sex, in particular—because the sight of them
exposes the absurdity of our gay hate.
23
Imagine the violence in sex that would be
if male humans had the same libido as now
but a horse body and hooves instead of hands.
24
Deep pining for sex
in the devout
keeps out the absurd.
25
Condemning gay sex on grounds
that it is a choice (and thus unnatural)
even as you choose to wear only dark clothes.
26
The rapey factor of so much animal sex.
27
The feeling of having failed as a parent
in not having protected your child
from sexual molestation.
28
One’s having sex with someone
from a foreign country described
as one’s conquest of that country.
29
Those who ride horses only when there is
show of consent, but who say that horses
cannot show consent when it comes to sex.
30
Be sexually liberated, but still be a good girl.
31
Condemning gay sex on grounds
that it violates the purpose of the tongue
even as you lick stamps.
32
Sex awkward because you already sexted.
33
Honeypot strategy in religious dating:
tempt the self-proclaimed virtuous man
with sex; get rid of him if he goes after it.
34
Condemning gay sex on grounds
that it is revolting behavior
even as you handle a pet tarantula.
35
The ridiculousness sex,
and the overwhelming drive for it,
stands out well after cumming.
36
Supporting gay sex on grounds
that some are born that way
even as you condemn those violent from birth.
37
How else to get excited
in this sphere of domestication
than risky behavior: sex, gambling?
38
The first AI will be a sex slave.
39
Shitting while she is in the motel shower,
after just your first sex, makes you think
her more than just some mistress.
40
Antidepressants because you are
a closet gay, help at least in that
they decrease the sex drive.
41
Sex lube in the neon fanny pack.
42
Sexually transmitted fleas.
43
Hypersexualized bodies (blacks,
say) are more easily raped
in good conscience.
44
However true it may be, do not say
that you will give her a kidney if need be
(at least not after just one bout of phone sex).
45
Porta-potty sex.
46
We conceal things (such as eyes) to focus
elsewhere (mouth), and with concealment
total (niqab) the focus is sexiest: imagination.
47
“Treat others as you would have them
treat you” has a rather sexy suggestion:
let your tastes guide your conduct.
48
Homosexorcism.
49
Kids should learn from the experienced,
and yet why not when it comes
to their first sexual experiences?
50
Sexbots evermore lifelike,
Victorian accusations evermore devastating—
the right choice for men is evermore clear.
51
Framing children as sexless and asexual.
52
You keep your dog locked up,
away from sex, but refuse to relieve it
with at least a clinical handjob?
53
Even with the knowledge that she was hacked,
it can be hard to avoid taking it personally
when your sex doll turns on you.
54
Having sex with someone whom
you realize—in the very process—
to have a perspective, seeing eyes.
55
Threatened by the sex toy even though you shopped for it with her.
56
The law on the proper way to communicate
sexual consent demands a “Yes” be given,
not a nod, a kiss back, or even a “Hai” or “Si.”
57
Taping sexual encounters in fear of the next-day takeback.
58
Silicon high heel sex toys for a risk-averse generation.
59
Turned off by men who find sex meaningful.
60
Elders have always helped the young
through experiences, but in sex
that has become forbidden.
61
Consensual nonconsensual sex.
62
High-school sex education
enlightened enough to teach
about foreplay and g-spots.
63
Planning what to do next
does not necessarily mean
you are fucking up the sex.
64
The owner paying the housepainter with sex.
65
Sex with a person who has lived a full life.
66
The deepest feeling of trust—love—
experienced when your friends
lose themselves in sex before you.
67
Virgin Mary
virtual reality
dirty sex.
68
Guilted, shamed, to perform
victim of sexual harassment
by the guidance counselor.
69
There was eating before
there was the word for eating—
and the same with gay sex.
70
Do you tell fellow inmates
that you are in for pissing in public
or the sex crime it was construed as?
71
Privileged as they are,
it is hard for straight men
to find free sex at truck stops.
72
Fake-aroused performances as the sole means to learn about sex.
73
Sex is so hot with shame
one has to wonder if that
was the intent of the shamers.
74
When she declines sex on grounds that the child is asleep,
you cannot give the old “Well, why’s the child here?”
if you live in a car; but you can respond “That’s perfect, no?”
75
The sexual urge that awakens amid a struggle against midday dozing.
76
A porn screenplay where sexual harassment
is not an impossibility, where the patient—
or school girl or so on—does not really want it.
77
Entirely heterosexual
but with a fetish for banging
a five o’clock shadow mouth.
78
The power that your spouse
has over you when she wants
less sex than you.
79
Parents fight at the table each night
over the identity (sexual, racial, cultural)
of the child sitting before them.
80
If she is his wife and his thoughts are on an other,
then sex with her might make him an adulterer
without making her an adulteress—riddle fodder.
81
Finally making a sex tape with someone else—someone else sentient.
