At my age, it’s unlikely that I could persuade anyone to purchase sexual favours from me. Still, should I be so propositioned on a dark night by a blind man with a penchant for wrinkled, lined and flabby old ladies, the answer would be a resounding no. Such a thing I consider degrading and simply beyond the pale.
I have done things others might regard as ever so slightly on the wrong side of right, but I draw the line at anything demeaning or unseemly. This includes assuming the surrender position in airport scanners, mask-wearing during the covid nonsense or permitting some randomer to insert an object into my nasal passage. Perhaps it’s an old-fashioned view but for me self-respect is paramount. It would be impossible to contemplate anything so degrading as selling myself, body or soul, or indeed not defending myself in a fight.
I’ve been in many a physical fight, most but not all in my childhood. I’ve waxed lyrical in previous posts about my heroic battle with a lowlife mugger from which I emerged victorious, as well as my fearlessness and derring-do on not one but two occasions when faced with gangs of marauding robbers. As a child I recall several instances of rolling around the ground scratching, screaming and hair pulling when set upon by some local yahoos because I had elephant ears, wore weird clothes or because my mother moonlighted as the local drunk. If I’m attacked it’s indignation and not fear that drives me. How dare they? I cannot allow them to get the better of me!
These days my only battles are with weeds and slugs so I’ve no idea how I’d fare in a bout of fisticuffs. But having practised karate as well as boxing in the past, I'm sure I still have some good moves left in me.
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Posted in response to 
asking 'Would you you trade sexual favours to pay a debt?' and
'Have you ever been in a physical fight, person to person or on the battlefield? If you have, what happened and why?'
