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It’s a position I don’t understand anymore at all. I remember reading a NYT article in the early 2000’s of the same nature. A man was fearful of kissing in NYC on 8th Avenue center of a gay area and that we hadn’t progressed enough.

At the time I traveled monthly for work globally. My husband would drive me to the airport in Houston Texas, get out of the car and big smooch leaving. When I met gay friends in public non-gay venues in Houston, we kissed hello. Now SF same state. Nobody I know in Houston seemed to hesitate for a second to kiss or hold hands.

I’ve had humorous experiences around the world with my husband, never shame.

I don’t understand it anymore. The world has changed since I was a child in the 60’s.

I don’t think it has anything to do with gays for

You or the NYT writer, everything to do with expressing affection to anyone perhaps.

It’s not a condition of gaydom for decades.

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Thanks for your thoughtful comment. I respectfully disagree, however - I know of others, both young and old, who have felt similarly to the way I describe. And, of course, I know very well how I, myself, felt!

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Thanks for sharing, Callum - that's very interesting stuff. Maybe you're right, maybe it's just a matter of waiting for the right person. Then again, the ex of whom I speak felt like the right person at the time (the whole 5 months we were together, that is!).

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Don’t take me wrong - nothing to disagree with. I just don’t understand it, quite simply. We’re in 2023, gay marriage is heading to the 10th anniversary, I’ve been married 25 years next year. I and my family and my husband’s family are loud and affectionate. I find that people in general have become incredibly physically un-affectionate in the last 25

Years. It’s so strange. I dont understand it. It’s consistent with the fact that younger people are having a lot less sex. I’m physically affectionate with friends, the older they are the more freely it’s reciprocated…

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