Quarters. Measures. Give and take. These stories are about the place of the private in a time when the doors of confinement blew open.
The chapters have two sources. First, an archive of documented cases on s****l behavioral patterns in South African society commissioned by a research facility in 1992–3 and supplemented again in 1998. Added were new studies done in 2012 and 2014.
During the initial and second projects I was a data gatherer. For the last two, a coordinator and compiler. All the information was gathered via questionnaire, written testimony or recorded interviews. The names are fictional in accordance with privacy rules.
Later on, my background as researcher prompted me to tap into a second source. I placed an advert in two daily newspapers in 2004 asking for real-life ero
