Studies have shown…
According to the leading experts…
Prevailing opinion insists…
The latest polls indicate…
My father always said…
The evidence declares…
Indisputably…
Without doubt…
We all keep some of our inclinations to ourselves.
That is because some of our inclinations seem to us to be
socially unacceptable, to put it nicely.
But I’d be willing to bet that my inclinations
are enough
like your inclinations
that we would be surprised,
and possibly relieved,
with
a strong lingering chance of embarrassment,
if we somehow discovered
that we
shared similar inclinations.
Common human tendencies are what they are.
We keep them private and secret
in order to preserve a
semblance of
dignity, maturity, sanity, humanity, and civilization.
We still all put our pants on
one leg at a time.
one leg at a time.
This is the great equalizing image of how most humans clothe
themselves.
It is clean and mundane and true.
Meanwhile, our inclinations linger in the dark.
