You make a pass: The initiator exposes himself to rejection and to the judgment that he is undesirable, which judgment anyone who keeps his distance is allowed to avoid; the recipient exposes herself to providing personal evidence of another’s desirability …
You ask for my top-of-the-head thoughts on “the enrages or the beat or simply the deviant,” and one of the first things that occurs to me is that it is precisely that sort of question—and the purpose for which it …
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