by Vivienne Pratfall considers the peculiar intimacy of sexual encounter across class boundaries, what gets hidden and what gets revealed
Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat
Tonight I Dated a Banker – Reflections on Class, Sex, and the City
He paid for dinner without checking the price. I watched him not checking the price. That’s when I knew nothing would develop. Attraction dies when someone hasn’t had to think about cost. It’s not romantic. It’s alienating.
Sex across class boundaries is interesting because class doesn’t disappear into intimacy. It becomes more visible. How you hold your body, what you say, what you don’t sayall of it carries class like a language.
See Vivienne Pratfall’s perspective on London dating dynamics.
We left separately. He to his flat. Me to the last train home.
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