Nov 2025
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The Wages of Sin (Apparently) Are Haemorrhoids
London’s leather weekend was the most debauched I’ve ever been. Again, without going into details on…
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Debugging the Body: A Visit to the GP
About a week ago I sent an e-consultation to the surgery to ask whether the timings…
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London Leather: Epilogue and Afterglow
After the Leather Social, Cicero and I were both very tired and went straight to bed.…
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London Leather 3: Kink, Calm, and Keeping My Dad From Panic
Continuing my adventures at the London Leather Weekend… Content note: This post includes kink, BDSM dynamics,…
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London Leather 2: Bears, Brothers, and the Texture of Desire
Following on from London Leather 1… Content note: This post includes kink, BDSM dynamics, and sexual…
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London Leather Day 1: A Collar, a Club, and a Very Bad Beer
I am off to London to spend another fun weekend with Cicero! The dog has been…
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Starting to map the marriage
The first thing I did when Richard (my counsellor) arrived was apologise for breaching his privacy…
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Being Heard – and Being Handled: My MP’s Letter and the Minister’s Evasion (part 2)
After reading the Minister for Equalities’ response – which Satvir forwarded to me as promised –…
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Swiping across boundaries
In a bored moment, I was on one of the gay dating apps idly swiping through…
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Being Heard – and Being Handled: My MP’s Letter and the Minister’s Evasion (part 1)
A little while ago I wrote to my MP, Satvir Kaur, about the political and media…
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Visible and Vanishing: Trans Day of Remembrance
The Weight of Remembrance Every year on 20 November, communities around the world gather to mark…
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Apparently I Need Two Hours’ Notice
I had to visit the sexual health clinic to pick up my PrEP (Pre Exposure Prophylactics…
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“A Previous Life”: Reading Edmund White in the Midst of My Own Ending
This is a posthumous novel; I don’t know how much are Edmund’s own words and what…
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A quiet rite by the sea
It’s been years since my husband last joined me on one of ritual trips to Clevedon.…
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Ball Pools and Broken Hearts
At the weekly cinema trip with Ambrosius, I was feeling tired and a little out of…
