That which is beautiful never goes unpunished.

Saturday. I'm drunk and stoned. It's night time. St Kevin's Arcade - and there it is. Above me, high in the balcony that fades away from my blurry vision like a static image of Mt Fuji done by a third-form English student... Two Asian males begin to kiss. The kisser (for they truly are a kisser and a kissee) is adorned in a grey suit and capped with a head of greying hair. His prey (although the relationship is perhaps less predatory than I am allowing myself to describe) is younger - maybe 35, semi-professional. He backs away at first, is slightly taken aback when the older male tries to force himself onto him, yet relents. And this image, these two males wrestling with each other for attention and companionship and maybe a little sex, is absolutely beautiful.

There's something in the freedom in which these two revel that I adore - and it's a freedom we often take for granted. Imagine; the idea of homosexuality is barely entertained in your culture... you grow up, work as hard as you possibly can, take a wife and pump out one child (preferably a male). Even with the rosiness of Socialist Sympathies, this is a fairly bleak picture. But not an uncommon one - for much is bleak in the modern world. I digress - and so these two males, on their working holiday to New Zealand, drunk from the free-flowing nozzle of booze and liberty, are above me. Pashing. There is so much to love in this scenario - the carelessness and freedom they must feel in this country, this city, this street, this bar, allows them to indulge in a practice in the open air that is everything that they want to do. These two are more free in that moment than we are in most of our lives. Social constrictions, censorship, 'morality' and 'values'.. all torn asunder, ripped out from beneath them like the undoing of a rope ladder across a gorge.

Freedom is something we should all aim for, and it is our responsibility to ensure that each of us is free to aim for their own freedom without being held back by others' freedom. In short, our pursuit of freedom should never compromise another persons pursuit of freedom.

Till then... Pash away, ye Asian sons of the night.