White Sex
The high watermark of “white sex” is the white person who loses their cautionary head and becomes a bona fide sex maniac.
“White sex,” I repeated, for the third time.
Not “right” sex or “wide” sex or a new drug to do it to— which is what everyone imagined when I announced the subject in a Village Voice newsroom. Everyone being white, of course.
They asked me to write a story for their 1993 “White Issue,” which was framed along the lines of, ““When did whites come into the world? When was the first time that Europeans, faced with otherness, looked at each other and said, ‘We’re white’?”
Good question.
I was eager to dig into the hot mess: What is “white sex”? As in, white people and how they fuck— is there anything to it?
I laughed when I got the assignment, but then I couldn’t let stop turning it over in my mind.
First, “White Sex” is commonly referred to as: “sex.”
Whenever we hear the results of a new survey about “how many males over forty-five watch porn,” or “the number of women under thirty wh…