Well, the common refrain appears to be, "this paper was hard to write for me!" I'm no different. I knew exactly some of the things that I'd be covering in the paper from the first day that we talked about the paper, but I still found sitting down and reading it extraordinarily different. Probably because some of the things I wrote about I am still struggling with, and thinking about the other things I no longer worry about makes me remember how much pain was caused. There were things from my past I had completely forgotten before I started thinking about this paper, and some of them I'm not terribly pleased to have remembered.

It's interesting - I find that I resonate more with the work we're doing and reading than I perhaps expected at first. Maybe that's because there's so much more crap about body image in the male gay community than there is among straight men...