Each week, Benjamin Law asks public figures to discuss the subjects we’re told to keep private by getting them to roll a die. The numbers they land on are the topics they’re given. This week, he talks to Costa Georgiadis.
The TV presenter, 59, is also a landscape architect, environmental educator and author. He has presented ABC TV’s Gardening Australia for 12 years and co-hosted SBS’s The Hospital: In the Deep End . His beard is 33 years old.
Costa Georgiadis: “If sex is an entire immersion that gives us release, gardening – therapeutically – is the ultimate release.” Credit: Dominic Lorrimer SEX What was sex ed like for you in the ’70s? Some graphics: “This is a penis; this is a vagina.” There weren’t any words around enjoyment; it was just biology.
And now I’m still single in a world that’s another planet compared to what was going on when we were first dating and exploring that side of ourselves. Do you embrace singledom or does it set you apart from everyone else? It’s more of an embrace; I have freedom. But growing up with an ethnic [Greek] background, I was constantly asked, “When are you going to get married?” I’d be invited to events and the whole dinner table would disappear [to leave me talking to someone].
And I could pick it: “[Costa’s] a good boy and Sophia’s a good girl, so let’s bring them together.” So marriages weren’t arranged, but families would try to engineer partnerships? Yep, and you’d go, “OK, here w.
