“Summer Lover” by Until June, Monday, August 8, 2022 (Content warning: sexual content)
Until June's self-titled debut record is still available on streaming services. The band released the record in 2006 on the Christian record label Flicker Records, then distributed by Sony Music. Six years later, the band released their follow-up, Young & Foolish on Madison Line Records. Then in 2014, the band ceased all activity, but never declared a break-up. Currently, Young & Foolish is unavailable on streaming services.
I WANT MORE THAN A SUMMER LOVER. It all started with a sermon. It was probably the last sermon that I let myself take too seriously when I thought that I could still fit into the stoic format. If I were faithful, somehow my life would feel fulfilled. I tried to fix things on my own, and held myself back by dating the best I could, and in my case, it was a guy who believed in God. I even insisted that we pray together on the phone at night, but was that before or after we jerked off together? But of course, I was dating a man, having sex before marriage, and if it even mattered, he wasn't Seventh-day Adventist. And yet this relationship had become vapid as it was bound to become. A relationship based on physical touch when he had been put on an assignment that kept us apart for a long time. A language barrier. An age gap of about 15 years. A true lack of a sense of future. And yet he's kinda sorta Christian. I wanted more. I wanted not to feel alone. I wanted to enjoy the last of my twenties, uninhibited by a restrictive religion that told me to contort myself into something that was so foreign to my body, and for longing for what was natural for me was unattainable? Yet I feared the consequences. The STDs, the shame. So if I could stay faithful to my man, to my God, and just delete Grindr. But it was just too addictive.
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