MORE ON THE LARRY SEILER STORY. Following up on last week's item about the Village Voice article "Something in the Way He Moves," I note that criticism of the piece showed up in the paper's letters column, which has reached a level of ongoing general negativity (not just in response to this one story) that I haven't seen since the days when Nat Hentoff sided with anti-choice activists.

Anyway, you can check out the letters and also consider this article about sex and a man with cerebral palsy.

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MEET LARRY SEILER. I think the Mara Altman article "Something in the Way He Moves" is worth reading. (On the same web page is a substantial audio interview with Laura Conaway that is also worth hearing.) It's a profile of Larry Seiler, a teacher and the creator and host of the BronxNet show Special People Special Issues. He's got cerebral palsy and a strong interest in sex.

But here's a contrary, anti-article, view from Cory Silverberg. I think it's also worth reading. I also note that, in the audio file, Seiler describes Mara Altman as a close friend--but I don't believe there is any such disclosure in the article itself.

Photo: David Marc Fischer