So much thought has to go into wording these days. When I first wrote the text for the website, I chose to start the home page with “MenSensual is intended for all (gay) men who crave more sensuality…”. I wanted to clarify that my main intended audience would be gay men, without excluding any other men. But then someone made the point that this wording might alienate my intended main audience because of the brackets! Back to the drawing board, then. What happened next was a downward spiral of ever more complex thinking processes, second thoughts, and then questioning those once again. I found myself caught in the linguistic stranglehold of political correctness and second-guessing other people’s (pre)conceptions. And then I stopped in my tracks. I sat back and took a good look at the mess I was in, and ultimately found that it wasn’t all that difficult after all. Fact: I had been dragged down a bottomless pit of trying to make it right for everyone. Not a fact: I have to do right by everyone. In the end, I have to say what rings true for me, and what will attract the right audience. My audience is “men”. If you are a gay man or – better yet – a gay couple ... that is an added bonus. Finding your own truth and conveying it properly is an important part of what conscious sensuality is all about, and that goes for thoughts, physical contact, emotional connection and whatever follows alike. For those who haven’t had a peek yet: I settled on “MenSensual is intended for all those men who crave more sensuality…” and am happy to stick to this one. It says it all, really. Speak your own truth. Always.
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