![]() ![]() ![]() He loved Chet Baker and John Coltrane and Bessie Smith and Lightnin’ Hopkins. He’d break out his Southern-soul records-Wilson Pickett, Ray Charles. Dad was a poet who taught at the University of Arkansas, and he’d often host raucous literary parties. I had been living in Houston and Austin, plying my trade in the music scenes, working odd jobs in restaurants and health-food stores to pay my bills, but I often went to Fayetteville to visit my father and stepmother, and sometimes I would stay there for weeks or months at a time. I met Frank sometime in the spring of 1978. For me, the epitome of this kind of man was the poet Frank Stanford. The way I’ve often described this kind of man is “a poet on a motorcycle.” These were men who could think very deeply and have very deep feelings, but who also had a kind of blue-collar, roughneck quality to them. Very often a good conversation is more memorable than fucking.Īs I was growing up, I began to be attracted to a certain kind of man, and I would maintain that kind of attraction for the rest of my life. I realized early in my adult life that talking-real, honest, substantive conversation-could be superhot, and it didn’t have to result in anybody taking their clothes off for it to be erotic in a lasting way. The brain is the real erogenous zone, at least for me, so I have to connect with somebody intellectually and almost spiritually in order to be attracted to them physically, and that rarely happens immediately. I don’t disagree, but even though I had plenty of sex when I was younger, I was never promiscuous. I don’t sound like I did when I was younger it’s different, but just as good. (The beds were cheap back then, at least the ones we were using.) I never did take to cigarettes, which I’m glad about, because not smoking has helped my singing voice mature. You’d just go and go and go until the bed broke or something. After I started the pill, though, I didn’t waste much time. ![]() They are bad for you.” We had a little deal, and I stuck to it. “I know a lot of teen-agers are having sex already, but if you hold off on having sex until you are eighteen, then we’ll get you the pill,” he said. Bengaluru-based Mojocare has been gaining prominence in the sexual wellness space in the recent past and recently cornered $20.6 million Series A round led by B Capital’s newly launched early-stage fund Ascent Capital.In my teen years, in the late nineteen-sixties, my father was adamant about cigarettes and sex. Imbesharam was one of the early startups that tried hard to crack the opportunity but couldn’t scale. While several startups have evangelised the sexual wellness space in the past five-six years, the space is yet to see any notable success. Apart from its website, the company also leverages third-party marketplace for distribution. The company claims to have 40% M-o-M and served more than 15,000 customers across the country. MyMuse is a gender-neutral brand dedicated to sexual wellness and offers products such as body massagers, lubricants, oils, couple games, gift kits, and relatable content. The Mumbai-based content to commerce startup plans to use the raised funds to grow its team, introduce a range of innovative products, strengthen brand positioning, and expand distribution, MyMuse said in a press release. MyMuse, direct-to-consumer (D2C) sexual wellness and bedroom essentials startup, has raised $1.2 million in a seed round of funding led by Saama Capital and participated by Sauce VC, Whiteboard Capital, Mohit and Malika Sadanni, Varun Sadana and others. ![]()
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