Anonymous asked: Do your friends/family/old lady call you Sexpigeon? If so, would you choose a different name in retrospect?

No, they don’t. Strangers sometimes do. That’s fine for strangers to do.

I often feel troubled by the name of this site. First of all, it does a very poor job of describing the content therein. Worse, I do not enjoy saying it out loud. I do not even like writing it down. Every aspect of it is queasy-making. Pigeons are all missing their feet, they hop around on cystic stumps. Their noise of their takeoff is a filthy huffle. Sex is a dollar-store word. It infiltrates the pores like petroleum from a Russian dishglove. It is abrupt and belchy and hits one’s teeth on the way out of one’s mouth. I go out of my way to avoid saying the name of this site. I certainly cannot divulge it to my family or to my employers. Political office? That dream is dashed.

Sexpigeon is a gross name. But I cannot think of a different one.