It Ended Badly by Jennifer Wright

Author:Jennifer Wright [Wright, Jennifer]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781627792875
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

8. John Ruskin

Effie Gray

When I was younger, I used to read an advice column in some sexy grown-up ladies’ magazine (almost certainly Cosmopolitan). In one column, addressing the subject of being on top while having sex, a woman was concerned that her boyfriend would see her belly fat in that position and be repulsed. The columnist replied, “Anyone who is close enough to you that you are having sex with them should be close enough to you that they would not care.” This struck me as good advice, way better than the response I’d composed in my head, which was “Turn off the lights, maybe?” That is why fifteen-year-olds should not be advice columnists.

But yes, in real life, it’s very unlikely that someone you care about is going to see you naked and suddenly run for the hills because of anything about your body. Unless you are married to John Ruskin, in which case, I am so sorry.

Not that, at first glance, Ruskin seemed in any way a bad person to marry. He was a brilliant art critic—surely the best of his age. He was also a prolific writer, painter, and philanthropist—he used his family fortune to build model apartments! He was even an amateur botanist and geologist who wrote a mineralogical dictionary at age twelve. He was interested in environmentalism long before it was fashionable to be interested in that subject, and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood artistic movement was influenced by many of his ideas. He even founded the Guild of St. George, which denounced industrial capitalism and pollution, and which still exists today! He was also very nice-looking. Gabriel Byrne could play him in a movie, that is, a younger Gabriel Byrne.

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