Hey there. Make your week a great week, play TMI Tuesday.  (Just Jack this week.)

1. What makes you, you?
A prodigious sex drive. An appetite for delicious food. Empathy and the certainty that none of us are free until all of us are. Nonstop geekiness. Anxiety.

2. Do you care more about doing the right thing or doing things right?
I care more for doing the right thing, although to me, one suggests the other. Screwing somebody over isn’t “doing things right.”

3. What is sexual freedom? Do you have it?
To me, sexual freedom is acting in a manner that is true to one’s needs and desires, not having to hide one’s sexual self, and generally being fulfilled. Am I sexually free?  Well, recall my answer to #1:  If we’re not all free, none of us are.  And currently, we’re definitely not all free.  I suspect we won’t be in my lifetime.  However, speaking strictly on a personal level, I believe I have limited sexual freedom; my open relationship allows me to pursue sex with people who are not my wife. However, I cannot date openly due to local scrutiny from Jill’s family, friends, and co-workers because if we were found out it would affect her personally and professionally. Additionally, given the current war against sex workers, I fully expect that conservatives’ next assault will be against those who have sex outside a monogamous marriage. (But only the ethically non-monogamous, because we all know said conservatives are serial adulterers.)

4. In your romantic relationships, is trust more important than love?
Yes. I don’t love everyone with whom I experience or have experienced a romantic relationship.

5. Your life, is it more of a dream or a nightmare?
My life can’t be summed up quite so simply. Like everything, it is neither black nor white.

Bonus: What is the last romantic thing you did for someone?
I’d cite the time I took flowers to my wife at work, but I chose that particular day because my daughter was on Spring Break and I wanted her to actually take them in and give them to Jill. So I guess it wasn’t exactly a romantic gesture. On the other hand, I wanted to demonstrate to my daughter that getting such surprises is potentially something that could happen to her in a relationship, so maybe it was after all.

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