Levitate the Primate

A collection of essays and confessions about sex, taken, in large part, from a period of time, when author, Michael Thomsen was writing a sex and dating blog for Nerve.com. Expanded, edited, and reframed with the embedded narrative of an affair that the author had with a woman for whom he later quit his job and moved across the country to be with, failingly. This story was the secret backdrop for every essay: remembrances of bad sex, shambolic internet dates, moral infirmness, handjobs, blowjobs, an HIV scare, an STD, and a hope-filled cross-country move that ended in shambles. Each essay is its own fragmentary evidence of that story, which, taken in aggregate, becomes an epistolary memento - a struggle to keep the single thread of romance centered in a world of topical distraction, mundanity, and indifference.