Homelessness: the part of the story no one wants to talk about.
As the police approached, Tracy hoped he might talk his way out of trouble by insisting he was merely assisting a woman in need. As we come to appreciate more fully the homeless population’s need for spaces in which to do the things that humans do, it’s worth taking seriously the fact that people experiencing homelessness often have no place for physical intimacy. After all, humans “need” any number of things that aren’t direct requirements for biological survival—a place to shower, education, time for relaxation, an antidepressant—and we still take these needs seriously. When asked about his sex life, an unhoused man named Crister told a journalist that it used to be easy to meet women, but “now I’m older and I’ve lost some of my teeth. Many describe the mundane experiences so many of us have in the course of our sex lives: “I don’t really know that I felt a whole lot of anything,” one unhoused woman said of an encounter that left her content but underwhelmed.
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