Please welcome Modest Kink, a website started over a few drinks and a joke with friends that when the laughter cleared we realized we now had a project on our hands.
Mesa’s a strange town. Somehow we’re the third largest city in Arizona, spread out over a hundred square miles. We’re known for having wide streets and narrow minds. People think we’re all one religious group, or act like Judd Nelson’s character from The Breakfast Club, ready to set fire to a dumpster at our high school. Truth is we’re some of those things, we’re none of those things, we’re all of those things. Fundamentally, we posit, we just don’t know ourselves.
We don’t seem to talk much about sex and sexuality, but we’re out there, doing things. Feeling things. Wondering things. What are we doing behind closed doors? Are we kinky? Are we boring? What’s Mesa into? From our immigrant communities to our retirement homes, whether we’re raising a Costco cart of children or decidedly not having a single kid, Mesa’s getting busy.
So that’s why we’re here. Not necessarily to talk about our prurient interests, but instead about expiring and examining sex and sexuality in Mesa and in the valley. What’s going on? What are the issues we face? What’s awesome? We’re humans. We feel things. We live in complex societies and experience conflicting desires. Our upbringing, friends, neighbors, and family all play into how we experience ourselves as sexual beings. We have stories that are not yet told. We have thoughts we haven’t quite thought through. We’ve got a lot going on. But we’re here for it.
Sometimes we’re hella horny. Sometimes we’re feeling quite introspective. Sometimes we want to examine the human condition, and sometimes we just don’t know what to feel, and we feel that.
And really, this isn’t just about Mesa . . . or the Valley for that matter . . . it’s about all of us. We’re messy humans living messy, imperfect human lives. We’re complex, we don’t have all the answers, but we’re here for it. And we’re here for you.
So pull up a chair, read what our neighbors are saying, write down some of those thoughts you’ve been playing with and send them in. We can’t wait to get to know all of us, in all the ways we as humans find ourselves.
