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Thursday, March 11. 2010

Sexual tension

The magical biological and psychological chemical attractions to which we humans are heir is one of the more complicating, exciting, bewildering, and painful parts of life. Desire.


Sexual and romantic tension between two people is powerful stuff indeed. Without it, there would be very little music.


The French, like the cave-men did, routinely give in and just get the thing over and done with. Magic gives way to reality fast, in relationships that last longer than a few hours or weeks.


I wonder how our readers deal with this part of life, but I am not trying to collect Lenten confessions...

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Magic gives way to reality fast, in relationships that last longer than a few hours or weeks.

I wonder how our readers deal with this part of life

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67 percent of American women deal with it by getting a divorce
#1 bruce wayne on 2010-03-11 13:17 (Reply)
I've been happily married to the same woman for 25 years, which leads me to the conclusion that . . .

I must not be French.
#2 Jim on 2010-03-11 13:40 (Reply)
Dammit - you beat me to it.

LOL!!
#2.1 Tom Francis on 2010-03-11 17:28 (Reply)
One of the nice things about being happily married is that you can find someone else attractive (which you are going to do from time to time) without freaking out about it.
#3 D on 2010-03-11 14:01 (Reply)
My sweetheart points out attractive pictures in the newspaper for me and occasionally alerts me to pretty girls nearby. I reciprocate, though less often. She knows I'll be true to her even though the eyes sure seem to be the faucets of the hormones...
#3.1 Geoff Brown on 2010-03-11 14:15 (Reply)
"I wonder how our readers deal with this part of life..."

Look around us. Art. Music. Theatre. Dance. Etc.

The ways people deal with it surrounds our everyday life.
#4 lordsomber (Link) on 2010-03-11 14:01 (Reply)
Heh --the pore little Beagle pup looks like he just lost his best friend --dang hormones, if only he could bark at em!

All of Norman Rockwell's Saturday Evening Post covers here:

http://www.saturdayeveningpostcovers.com/search.php?af=norman+rockwell

(the above illo is titled Sunset and appeared on the April 24th, 1926, cover)
#5 buddy larsen on 2010-03-11 14:12 (Reply)
That kid looks all about 3 feet tall. Maybe even in the second grade. : ) "dang hormones"
#5.1 jappy on 2010-03-11 16:15 (Reply)
Well maybe it's a dang hormone early warning system they're practicing.
#5.1.1 buddy larsen on 2010-03-11 17:11 (Reply)
Gentlemen never tell. And most of the rest of us keep it to ourselves also, so to speak.
#6 Knucklehead (Link) on 2010-03-11 16:03 (Reply)
Always enjoyed the chase and the tension myself, as much or more then the realization of action in many cases.
#7 phil g on 2010-03-11 17:16 (Reply)
What the French advertise about themselves and their attitudes is rationalisation. The tolerance for the affairs of powerful men descends from Droit de Seigneur, not open-mindedness. The general tolerance is very recent. Yes, even in Paris.
#8 Assistant Village Idiot (Link) on 2010-03-11 22:18 (Reply)
The magical biological and psychological chemical attractions to which we humans are heir is one of the more complicating, exciting, bewildering, and painful parts of life.
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Yet the gay-rights movement has convinced most people - without a shred of evidence - that such complex behaviors are genetically determined.
#9 Ben-David on 2010-03-12 05:07 (Reply)
One of my favorite bluegrass songs is by Hot Rise and is entitled:

"If You Ain't Loving, You Ain't Living."

Even married, one needs to be loving - hopefully with the one you married.
#10 whitehall on 2010-03-15 16:20 (Reply)

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