cosmolinguist | [127/365] (Reply)

Today I had the affirming experience of going to a gay sex shop (with my boyfriend and friends who are also dudes) and no one batting an eye.

I'd been in there once before, many years ago, with a then-boyfriend who was interested in going but too scared to go alone. I was sorta just there for moral support and sorta having more fun than he was (and I was just looking at underwear and a calendar I still remember all this time later, of French rugby players). But naturally I got some dirty looks, no doubt I made my boyfriend look straight when we were in fact two bi people.

And I'm glad I managed to not make my boyfriend look straight this time. Indeed the guy who was enthusiastically encouraging us to buy ridiculous dildos only singled me out to tell me "your mask is hot."

This made me laugh in surprise. It's just because of the neoprene cover, but still. I've been told a bunch of times that my mask is cool, but I never expected to hear that it's hot!