Taxicab Confessions. Real Sex. "For better or worse, these shows were my sex education," says Tracy Clark-Flory. "With the news that HBO has nixed its late-night adult entertainment, I am filled with wistful reminiscence, even though my pubescent era of programming is already long gone. Now it’s really gone, removed from HBO’s TV channels and subscription streaming services. As a kid, late-night HBO was like the cool older sister that I didn’t have. At school, I had learned through a series of dashed-together classes that sex was about pubic hair and sperm and genital warts. At home, raised by a couple of sex-positive hippies, I was told that sex was a magical, transcendent spiritual experience of love and connection. But at night, watching HBO, I learned that sex was wild and weird. It wasn’t always about love or spirituality on the level of, as my dad put it, 'two star systems colliding in outer space.'"
TOPICS: Real Sex, HBO, Taxicab Confessions