Becoming a Sex Icon

I learned what sex was from an episode of The Simpsons. It was 2001 and I was 9 years old, which, for a “city kid”, is fairly late. We had just moved into The Mayflower, a hotel that no longer exists, on Central Park West three blocks from my elementary school. We had previously lived a block away from Ground Zero and 9/11 pushed us out of our apartment…