Letters

Swing Set
Girl talk:I wanted to thank Deb Hipp for her article about Tootsie's ("Body Snatchers," February 22.) I don't go to Tootsie's often these days, but when I do, I am appalled at the number of hetero couples who have become fixtures.

What bothers me is that Tootsie's and its management deny any problems with them. In the past, couples have been warned and even asked to leave for harassing the women. I have witnessed this. I hear lesbians commenting about the couples, and trust me, they aren't being kind. I believe that Tootsie's will continue to deny any problems as long as the straight couples continue to come and spend their money.

Once again, thank you for addressing this issue.
Name Withheld Upon Request
Kansas City, Missouri

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Testosterone test:I enjoyed Deb Hipp's article about Tootsie's. I thought it was well written, and I was interested in what she had to say. When I come to Kansas City, I always look for the Pitch because of its attitude. I live in Ohio, and where I live there is nothing like it. I must say we clean the snow and ice off the roads better there, though.

I am a heterosexual man, and as much as I hate to say it, a ménage à trois has rattled around in my masturbatory fantasies on occasion. I would probably run as fast as I could from any encounter with one, but it is a man's fantasy, and as I said, I am a man. I was born that way. Sort of a birth defect.

That said, the one angle that I think Hipp missed was the lesbians who actually went home with these swingers. I would think that there have to be some takers and actually some who enjoy it. I can't believe that all women, regardless of sexual orientation, are not interested in group sex of one kind or the other. It's also true that all men are not interested in a ménage à trois or group sex. Hard to believe, huh? But it's true. Maybe it's more about how much testosterone some men have and how little others have. I don't know. I am not sure I understand swingers, but I also think it's wrong to assume that the man is the instigator of all ménage à trois activity, though I would guess most of it is.
Alexander Fisher
Swanton, Ohio

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Lucky Stiff
Turned on:Casey Logan is a star in the making ("Woody Watch," February 15). This guy has got the total package; this was a smart way to write about a delicate subject. This is really unfair to the nightlife of Olathe.

Thank you, Casey, for bringing such a delicate problem to light and exposing the truth.
Scott Trupiano
Columbia

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Dribble-Down Theory
Rules of enragement:Based on the letters in the Pitch defending JaRon Rush, I just can't give up the topic yet.

Let's see. While in high school, JaRon broke the Missouri State High School Activities Association regulations regarding eligibility. He cost his teammates their state championship titles. A post-JaRon penalty cost hundreds of boys at his high school, none of whom ever played basketball with him, the opportunity to play in postseason competition. To my knowledge, he has never even offered an apology to his teammates or to his school.

He misrepresented to his school principal the ownership of an automobile that was being provided improperly to him. He chose to live with a wealthy businessman rather than his family. Do I need to know more?

No one is kicking JaRon while he's down. He's down strictly as a result of his own actions. He's where he deserves to be.
J. David Holt
Kansas City, Missouri

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JaRon Rules!Because I am a college student attending a school in the Northeast, my mother sends me articles from the local Kansas City papers in the mail. Though she warned me about this one, I was still shocked after reading the content (Greg Hall's "Drooped Dreams," February 1).

Hall glossed over JaRon's life thus far and pointed out snippets of information that in no way painted a complete picture of Rush's talent and strengths as an individual. To insinuate that his life and basketball career are over at the age of 21 is appalling. Hang in there, JaRon, life goes on -- with or without basketball. Hopefully, though, life will go on without filthy, uninformed articles by Greg Hall.
Katherine Holland
Hartford, ConnecticutA House Divided
The mom trap:In 1986, when I was 4 years old, my mother was dropped off at the place described in Deb Hipp's story as the ("House of Horrors" January 25). I was left with my grandparents, who insisted on placing her there because she was not taking her medication for epilepsy. She had also just lost her boyfriend and was suffering from a nervous breakdown.

As I grew up without a mother, times were really hard for me. I grew up in group and foster homes. I could never seem to rescue my mother. My grandparents wouldn't take me to see her. When I reached my teens, I finally ran away from the group homes. And, as I grew older, I always wanted to rescue her from that place.