Connie is in France this week. She turned 50 on Sunday, and said that she was looking forward to being in Paris "on his own" on that very special day.
She was packing for at least three months before leaving for this trip. When I met her for dinner the night before she left, she showed me around her new digs as we stepped around piles of clothes...pretty much as it was in his Concord house, only darker. He has a ground floor apartment, with a private, gated entrance (I believe they're known in the ghetto as "bar doors" because they are made of iron bars...clever, eh?) His bedroom window looks out directly to the sidewalk, and the only chance for direct light in the place.
He slyly let me know that he plans to explore his sexuality while he's in Paris, and he's been studying up on "dirty French" as well as collecting advice on different "scene" places to try. I guess he noticed my disdain, or assumed it, when I suggested that there are a great many things to do in Paris that don't involve having sex.
"You take the easy way out," he said. "With Jeremy and all of that."
I remember a year or two ago I hosted a dinner party. Matthew, Mike, and Connie were here, and Mike was excited to tell us about all the "super hot" men he had had sex with in Brazil. He described how he would instruct his cab driver to go slowly through a certain part of town, and when he saw someone he liked he would have the driver take the cab to the curb. He'd then roll down the window, and the Brazilian boy would come forward and pull out his wares for closer inspection.
"They'd let you do anything for, like, $2US!" he exclaimed.
"Oh my god, and they're dripping with venereal disease!" I shrieked, which I guess didn't make a friend of mine in Mike Finn. Connie, however, concurred that they are "filthy" and was most visibly disgusted by the whole idea of purveying flesh in the slums of Rio.
So is it more chic to be prowling for anonymous sexual partners, oh, pardon, "liaisons" in Olde Europe than in the New World?
Apparently so.
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