Aged 14, in parks and bathrooms, "I first discovered queer communities that let me have sex", places that would allow him to experience queerness "as something that could be a source of joy and intimacy and human connection".
That sense of intimacy is a great source of pleasure, and a reminder of Mr. Demme's unassuming, ardent humanism, a quality displayed in his recent fictional features (notably "Rachel Getting Married") as well as in his documentaries about Haiti, Neil Young and Jimmy Carter.
Like her undercover forays, Nick's voyeurism supplies both an illusion of intimacy, of burrowing to the source of things, and a precarious understanding.
While physical intimacy is the source of endless concern in teen fiction, the nuances of sexuality are often elided, or ignored altogether.
For most people (the asexual population and the abstaining Japanese youth notwithstanding), sex with another person, especially in the context of meaningful intimacy, is a source of joy.
But for others, affection, intimacy, and a source of constant love ranks high on the list of needs that could be considered luxuries, but go a long way toward making someone a happier and more bearable person.
Easy to learn, it is participation in the union of life's opposites that reveals the source of all opposites, and brings you to greater intimacy with your own body that translates into intimacy with other people.
And thus an amusing intimacy was created, the source of a brief period of tenderness between us.
The pleasures of intimacy.
