The real reason why black men are hardly ever seen in sex shops has little to do with a deep-seated respect for women. Nor is it to do with a strict moral upbringing, argues Shirley Brooks, as she goes out in search of the answers.
Shani Greene-Dowdell’s ‘Keeping It Tight’ chronicles the emotional roller-coaster life of Lela, a woman who can bring home the bacon, fry it up, and put it on the table as well. Lela is no stranger to heartbreak, but with the help of family and friends is able to pick up the pieces of her life and move on.
Bill Clinton should have apologized to Hillary about Monica and to the rest of America, only about the misuse of government premises. And Tiger Woods needn’t have apologized to anybody, except Elin, and that too whenever he was ready.
In hostile environments men who have sex with men have always operated under cover. So what’s new about the ‘Down Low’? And can we learn anything from it?
Anyone who knows me will tell you, I loathe urban fiction. The genre might be selling and filling bookshelves at major stores, but I just can’t get past the lack of substance in many of these books. However, I needed to see what all the hype was about Precious (based on the novel Push by Sapphire).
“HIV! HIV! – Go fuck yourself!” she said. And then I woke up. Or maybe it was the other way round. Maybe a whore outside my door was actually cursing her punter and I wasn’t dreaming at all, and then, I woke up.
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