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Sex is never just sex, is it?

It comes with expectations. Even the absence of expectations is an expectation.

It’s fraught with emotion. It’s not something you just do, like eating an ice cream, or going to the movies with a friend.

It’s laden with baggage. We dance around it, to a social, cultural, ethical, political tempo set not by us, long ago.

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Himal Kotelawala

Writer and journalist based in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Byline on The New York Times, Time Magazine and locally EconomyNext, The Daily FT, The Sunday Times and Roar.