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...that end, there are parts of the book that deal with public sex, explaining its legality in conjunction with freedom of sexual choice. Was writing about this difficult...
...think the issues about public sex were hard because, first of all, very little good legal analysis has been devoted to them. People just don’t talk about that very much. I didn’t want to scare my audience away by telling them “all this entails accepting sex clubs.” But in the end I do that because I think that’s what accepting the right of sexual choice entails...
April and the nurse discuss the speech therapy Miles has been receiving through the Boston Public Schools. He’s made progress, though April tells the nurse that other people can only understand 20 percent of what he says. He hasn’t had much success at sentences either. Miles gestures for another sticker, and now, Spongebob Squarepants is on his other cheek. They discuss the hospitalization, and the nurse asks whether his father has since cleared all the peanut butter out of his place. “He better have,” April responds. Oblivious, Miles...
April’s voices rises with dismay. It’s more than she’d realized. Miles needs blood work too to be able to enroll in public school next year. This is going to take longer than she had hoped. “I may need to leave him a little longer at daycare today,” she sighs. The nurse leaves to prepare the shots. Mr. Miles begins demanding more stickers. Three, four, five...
Gawande, who is also a professor at the Medical School and the School of Public Health, questioned whether solitary confinement is equivalent to torture, citing apathy among the public as the reason that solitary confinement is so pervasive in the United States...