Dallas Bragg describes the Tina scene, an underground subculture of clandestine parties among men who have sex with men, as a hidden dimension most people never see. He talks about the difficulty of leaving it behind and returning to ordinary life, and the grief involved in letting that world die so a new version of yourself can exist.
Only men who have sex with men who have experienced the Tina scene know and can vouch that it is another dimension. It's like walking through a portal into another world. This world that exists kind of like Fight Club underground, all around us in plain sight. People are going to work and living their lives and they don't realize that there are Tina parties and another world going on all around them. It can be difficult When you're in recovery, to be satisfied with normie life, knowing that all of that is going on around you. You think life is going to be boring. You think that life is just mundane. You hate to have like common conversation about the weather, but you have to say goodbye to that part of your life. You have to put it to rest. You have to put it to death. You have to go through a mourning process. It's okay to miss it. But you have to let it die so that a new version of you can emerge.
