Feeling uncomfortable about sex is so Canadian
In a recent Twitter post, Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievrehis housing plan at some kind of rally. Housing is so unaffordable that young adults are still living in their parents’ homes. And this dynamic – of 35-year-olds renting their parents’ nanny suites – poses a horny problem.
He reports asking a different crowd in Vancouver, “What do you do if you’re 35, and you’re living in your mom’s basement? How do you even bring home a date?”Finally, a politician was asking a good question: How is anyone supposed to get down, do the old spin-around-mess-around, Netflix and chill, get to third base, park their big Mack truck into a little garage these days? In this economy? In this political...
Sex hardly looms large in the Canadian consciousness. If anything, there’s a light discomfort with addressing the fact that people in Canada have sex. In 1973, writer and historian Pierre Berton was quoted as saying, “A Canadian is someone who knows how to make love in a canoe,” which manages to both over and undersell Canadian sexual prowess.
Struck by how sex and sexuality have been legalized and regulated, I went to a strip club in downtown Toronto on Easter Monday. It was predictably sparse for a holiday, but according to the doorman, it was unusually quiet. This place used to be legendary, he told me.
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