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Amrou Al-Kadhi<\/a><\/u><\/b> is truly a jack of all trades. Actor, writer, drag performer and stand-up comedian are just some of the hats this renascence man wears.<\/p>\n

He is also a writer, being a senior editor to The Inkling<\/a><\/u><\/b>. This is a magazine celebrating writing in the essay form. This past February he wrote a piece for the Inkling, a gay sauna essay.<\/p>\n

He writes <\/p>\n

“I impulsively walked into a gay sauna. It\u2019s something which had always caught my curiosity, and there was one in the flesh, right there in front of me. I thought my experience at the sauna would be productively meaningless \u2013 just excessive desire for desire\u2019s sake, with no emotional logic to what I was doing. And how wrong I was. I have never been so turned off and un-aroused in the entirety of my human existence. I couldn\u2019t have wanted to have sex any less, actually. I left completely untouched and totally unsatisfied. What\u2019s so odd about a sauna is that everyone is already there, naked, ready to have sex. You don\u2019t need to work for it. No flirting is necessary \u2013 there\u2019s not even any talking: nothing. All signifiers of desire are dispensed with for a very literal, non suggestive-experience.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Interested to read more? Go to Uncloaking Desire: Experiencing the Gay Sauna<\/b><\/u><\/a>. This is a terrific gay sauna essay<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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