Stop Talking About Sex

[monologue beginning in the audience and ending onstage] 

(hesitating, still sitting in the audience) 

Umm… why are we doing this? 

(Pauses, and slowly stands up) 

I heard so much about This is Not a Play about Sex … I don’t understand the hype - why do y’all need to talk about sex so much? 

Back home, college students get fined for just holding hands and you…. I don’t understand… I don’t even do that! 

(trails off as they go and sit on the stairs leading to the stage) 

I feel like people here are missing out -- a lot of them go to the Jug or DU hoping to find someone attractive they can spend the night with, and forget about them the next day. How do people sleep next to strangers? Even if it’s not about one night stands or hookups, when it comes to dating, the culture is all about superficial things like height, body type, physical beauty and so on. 

Relationships just lack genuine affection here. They don’t have compassion, vulnerability. I think a relationship can be so much more than just sexual contact -- it can be opening up about your flaws or your childhood in front of your partner, it can be letting all your internalized concepts about hypermasculinity just wash away as you let your partner help you grow. A relationship can be… embracing a version of yourself you never knew even existed. 

A lot of people tell me that I came to the wrong place if that’s what I’m looking for… I really hope they’re wrong. 

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Written by unknown, found in the 2020 script