This may sound odd but I’ve often wondered how men and women manage to have sex. Not that I haven’t been bombarded with images of heterosexuality, like everyone else in America, practically from birth. The mechanics of intercourse are really not a mystery, and haven’t been since I was about eight years old. There are, however, some times when I wonder about the physics of certain couples. Take, for example, the pair that I saw walking to the Metro tonight.
He was a fairly big guy, maybe 6’1″ and a sort of chunky 215lbs. She, on the other hand, was maybe 5’5″ and 110lbs. Her hips couldn’t have measured more than 26″ around. And all I could think as I watched them walk happily, hand-in-hand, down the hill to the subway entrance was: “How is that physically possible?” I’m sort of glad I don’t own a copy of the Kamasutra, or a copy of The Joy of Sex because the reality is that while I’m glad it works for them some how, I don’t really want to know just how.