But many gay men might not find the scene so strange. Read during today’s #MeToo wave, Brown’s vision of a “paradise” packed with men groping unabashedly yet respectfully may sound like a hallucination. Sex isn’t a weapon here, it’s a release.”Ĭheck out more from this issue and find your next story to read. “If you say ‘no’ it means ‘no,’ that’s all, and that simple ‘no’ also protects fragile egos. “The easiness of refusal is incredible,” she wrote. As a stranger reached for her groin, Brown’s “first response was to turn around and smash the offender’s face in.” Later, to one man who hugged her from behind, she whispered, “Thank you but I’ve been here for an hour and I’m tired.” The man left her alone. The way people touched felt foreign, too. “The leer is gone, the thinly disguised hostility of the street vanishes … The transaction boils down to: curiosity, no connection, disconnection.” “Men look at each other differently than men look at women,” she observed. To hear more feature stories, see our full list or get the Audm iPhone app.Ī robe hiding her female form, she marveled at the sex being had around every corner, from a dimly lit “maze” of semi-blind groping to an “unbelievable orgy room” of group activities to a corridor of cubicles in which men lay waiting for partners.