I forgot that to most people the word 'cunt' is an insult, derogatory, and shocking. That they don't hear it as a marvellous beautiful descriptor of female genitalia, or realise that I speak the word with love and reverence and respect.

I forgot that to most people 'sex' is between a male and a female, and described solely as the penetration of the penis into the vagina. That they have no idea sex can be amazing without penetration being part of the picture, or that indeed masturbation is solo sex and in no way secondary to that with a partner.

I forgot that to most people there are only two genders: 'male' and 'female', and they they either don't understand or actively despise the gender-queer, the androgynous, the intersexed, the transgendered and transsexual and just plain unsure. That they have no concept of the amazing galaxy of genders out there, and that while I may fit into one of the categories they understand, it doesn't mean I don't recognise the others exist...