Esther this story gives me much nachas — as you know, I have a story with a series of tanka on unconditional love and I have been building towards the point that as you say what most consider love involves exchange, NON-EXPLOITATIVE transactional sex between consenting adults should not only be destigmatized, it should be decriminalized.
Building off of White Feather’s great piece on the subject, what unconditional love is not:
Love’s a condition that should not have conditions Love with conditions is a property exchange It’s legal prostitution
Your piece captures perfectly and could be a decoder ring for my single line tanka:
Unconditional love rare on Earth ruled by egos and attachments from which awake souls should detach with not suffer from love
Destigmatizing and legalizing paid-for-sex is the unspoken message in my story yesterday: