Admittedly, this post has a limited appeal even within the fact my posts have a limited appeal. Some of you may have heard of Christopher Hitchens, the celebrated British journalist, writer, atheist and in-your-face public intellectual. The Guardian of London has an interview-cum-profile on Hitchens to coincide with his memoirs “Hitch-22.”. It is a compelling read. I was particularly struck by these passages, which talk about his sexuality.
I am particularly captured by this line: “Hitchens was exuberantly bisexual in his younger days – until his looks "declined to the point where only women would go to bed with me."
“We must also make what we will of his claim to have slept with two unnamed young men at Oxford who later joined Thatcher's government. Hitchens was exuberantly bisexual in his younger days – until his looks "declined to the point where only women would go to bed with me" – and is quite candid on the matter, so his refusal to name the future ministers looks at best coy and at worst like teasing up a bit of publicity for the book. "Oh no," he says. "To the contrary, I'd rather not discuss it." So why mention them at all? "You may look in vain for logic or consistency," he concedes.
Poetry, he does volunteer, always played an important part in his impressive sexual success. "You're disarming yourself in an important struggle if you can't produce a fucking sonnet. What if I had to try on my own merits? You've got to have some sort of reserve arsenal."”