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Both men and women are complicated sexual creatures. Men are ENCOURAGED to maintain as simple a facade as possible, women are encouraged to maintain as complicated a facade as possible.
Some verities:
- Just because someone may be attracted physically to someone else, even of the same sex, does not mean they want to have sex with that person.
- Sex is not just intercourse, but also all that leads to it. In women and men both, it is sensual. In women, it may be a passing breeze that turns her on- tactile. In men, it may be a sudden sighting of a woman- visual. But BOTH sexes cross over nearly completely in this regard, (men tactile, women visual), just that one is preferable over the other, depending on the prejudices of what people expect of each sex.
I see it all, men vs women and arousal, as an intertwined DNA strand of sorts, where each iteration or level or incidence or opportunity where a person may get turned on is a tiny baby step from what the other sex may experience with some minor translation or interpretation or change of perspective.
So when someone says men get turned on by looking at attractive women. it is not that simple, men look at women's faces FIRST according to research, not on their bodies. Women, on the other hand, DO look at the body first. You can see the old tropes turned on their head here. It seems to be the rule of sexuality that there IS no hard and fast, just nuance in the end.
This nuance and subtle twist may be the key to why gen after gen, for four billion years, animals keep keeping on, it (sexual inner expectation and possibility and will) is all a series of tiny slippery slopes around a multi dimensional kaleidoscopic merry go round.
Is it so hard
to shut your legs and say no?
-- brightstar65
would love to comment
but there's no point since the usual suspects have already hijacked the thread.
One sentence hijacked the thread huh? Maybe you just proved me right, because instead of taking responsibility for answering my query, your threw it out as if you are not responsible.
"Not responsible" Seems to be the meme of all free women.
So when DO women begin to take on some responsibility in this life?
Instead of getting together and agreeing to quit fucking abusive loser bastards, you women CHOOSE to knuckle under.
OPERATIVE TERM: you CHOOSE.
Regardless of anything else, women are always making a decision as to who is in their bed. that women refuse to acknowledge this says quite a bit about how IMMATURE and manipulative women are.
Your feminist foremothers would be ashamed that you women forgo taking on this vital task, preferring to slough it off onto men.
So be it. Men will fight on and challenge women's irresponsibility anyway.
Finally someone with the guts to admit that the dying throes of Hillary's campaign were an embarrassment to women everywhere.
I said a long time ago that Hillary was an embarassment to women and feminists with her strange behavior.
I'm more feminist than CP, I guess.
how those who just want CP to shut up NEVER offer any real reasons why they want this.
Not any counterarguments, no opposing facts, they just wan to shut her down.
I guess they just to not like what she says.
So much for the open minded left, the jokey lie that THAT is.
they prove to me time and again just how pedestrian are the closed, miniscule minds, entrenched on their isolated university wardens as they are, that seem to be the very embodiment of the poisoned left.
the only viewpoint they ever want to spy is the one that effectively mirrors the ever cliche'd lefty talking points.
If CP is so bad, name a BETTER writer who addressed both pop and high culture and who has a truly iconoclastic, honest outlook on society?