Cougar Town
by Josh K-sky on Jul.21, 2010, under Uncategorized
This interesting Ta-Nehisi Coates article got me thinking about another meaning for the term “leaker”.
I vaguely remembered learning about a 19th-century intentional community with a strong operating tenet of free love. Birth control was done by men holding in their ejaculation, a learnable practice. Men who weren’t as good at this as the others, according to one of my AmStud professors, were known as “leakers.”
A little googling and I refreshed myself that the practice is also known as coitus reservatus, the intentional community was (of course!) Oneida, and that another notable sex practice there was this: “Postmenopausal women were encouraged to introduce teenage males to sex, providing both with legitimate partners that rarely resulted in pregnancies. Furthermore, these women became religious role models for the young men.”
Beware, young bros at Pasadena’s Vertical Wine Bar. You might catch a nasty case of religious instruction.