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she said, so you've never done it?and I shook my head noshe said, oh your first time is going to be so badyou won't know what you're doingunlike my first timewith the pool boywhen I was sixteenin the pool, boywhat fun that wasshe said, smile spreading across her faceas she remembered
And she was wrong.I knew she would be.
Let me tell you this.Have you ever loved a person so much—and been loved back by that person—that you snuggle your feet togetherall night long?what's the big deal? you askLet me tell youthat neither of us are feet peopleI never let anyone touch my feetI never touch anyone else's feetfeet kind of gross me outand I can guarantee mine are always dirtybecause I walk around barefoot all daybutfoot snugglesare freaking magicala gift sent by the goddessesto couples like us [End Page 179]
who knowthat nothing could really be as intimateas wrapping our legs around each otherletting our feet mingle in a tangle at the foot of the bed. [End Page 180]
Jo Teut serves as the director of diversity and experience at Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast after working in diversity, equity, and inclusion at Centre College and the University of Wisconsin Colleges and Extension (now defunct). Teut coedited an issue of New Directions in Community Colleges titled "Representation, Space, and Place: Creating Access and Support for LGBTQIA+ Students" (2019) and published an article on asexuality inclusion within that issue. They have also published and presented on asexuality and transgender inclusion. Teut's academic, activist, and advocacy interests are in queer rural sociology and criminology studies; asexuality, queer, and transgender studies; and queer representations in American literature. Teut earned a MA in women's, gender, and sexuality studies at the University of Cincinnati in Ohio and a BA in English and Spanish from Morningside College in Sioux City, Iowa, their hometown.
