Based on a couple of conversations with a colleague and my friend Mr. Dateboy, I'm going to violate my self-imposed rule of trying not to sound like an actual sex blog and ask y'all a question, b/c I am curious. Note that you can leave anonymous comments: you don't need to identify yourselves, but c'mon, fess up: true online confessions are so freeing. It'll be good for you.

How common is the fantasy of fucking in a library/office/grad lounge, whatever? I know someone who slept in the grad lounge once, just to do it. And I know someone else who fucked his girlfriend in her office. And everyone has heard stories about people getting caught in libraries, and I know a librarian who says he's constantly interrupting people masturbating (how annoying). Dateboy and I had a conversation last night about maybe hooking up next time I'm in Big City to do research and screwing in the Big City U. research library. We hypothesized about what it is about that particular fantasy that's appealing (leaving out the obvious semi-public sex stuff, b/c really, it's just the library): Dateboy says it's that 1. "it's quiet and maze-like, so it begs for hidden corners to be explored"; and 2. "for anyone that holds books in some esteem, it's also a nice place to subvert." I say it's that I eroticize writing to begin with; there's a particular musty old long-dead Important Scholar who writes stuff that has absolutely nothing to do with sex, but whose ideas I find so intricate and compelling that reading him is always an erotic experience. And probably part of it is the whole brain-on-a-stick vs. thinking-with-bodies issue that obviously is important to me.

So. Who else has the library fantasy? And what do you think it's all about?