What you thought of G2 this week …
Widower seeking gay love, the demise of the landline and the royals divide you, but ill singer gets your good wishes ✒ “It’s the best bit of the paper!” Pamela Stephenson Connolly, G2′s very own sex therapist, answers some remarkable letters every Friday. We still have fond memories of the woman whose husband wanted her to make animal noises in the bedroom. (Cat? Dog? Potbellied pig? We never did find out.) Last week’s problem was equally astonishing, but not for any nowt-so-queer-as-folk-ness. Pamela’s correspondent, a widower in his 80s, wanted some help to find a “male friend”. “When my wife was very ill,” he explained, “she told me that she would be happy if I had the luck to find a man, because I was gay in my teenage years and she thought I would like to renew that experience. My late wife understood because she was a lesbian from the age of 12 until we met.” Yes, there are arguments to be had about whether you can be gay one moment and not the next, whether homosexuality is an “experience” etc, but what struck us was the woman’s concern for her husband – and her lack of jealousy. Our hearts were lifted. At guardian.co.uk/g2, however, Causidicus was beside himself. How dare the letter-writer feel the need to be discreet about his desires because he was a “highly respected person”? He
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What you thought of G2 this week …
Widower seeking gay love, the demise of the landline and the royals divide you, but ill singer gets your good wishes ✒ “It’s the best bit of the paper!” Pamela Stephenson Connolly, G2′s very own sex therapist, answers some remarkable letters every Friday. We still have fond memories of the woman whose husband wanted her to make animal noises in the bedroom. (Cat? Dog? Potbellied pig? We never did find out.) Last week’s problem was equally astonishing, but not for any nowt-so-queer-as-folk-ness. Pamela’s correspondent, a widower in his 80s, wanted some help to find a “male friend”. “When my wife was very ill,” he explained, “she told me that she would be happy if I had the luck to find a man, because I was gay in my teenage years and she thought I would like to renew that experience. My late wife understood because she was a lesbian from the age of 12 until we met.” Yes, there are arguments to be had about whether you can be gay one moment and not the next, whether homosexuality is an “experience” etc, but what struck us was the woman’s concern for her husband – and her lack of jealousy. Our hearts were lifted. At guardian.co.uk/g2, however, Causidicus was beside himself. How dare the letter-writer feel the need to be discreet about his desires because he was a “highly respected person”? He
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