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Intimate conversations and what they (may) lead to

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 In case the youtube link dies, listen to Carelss Whisper-George Michael  It'a revisit of this earlier post that was prompted by reading  is Needs, Her Needs: Building an Affair-Proof Marriage by  Willard F. Harley Jr. and the the chapter on the most important emotional needs "Conversation  Unlike sex, conversation is not a need that can be met exclusively in marriage. Our need for conversation can be ethically met by almost anyone. B ut if it is one of your most important emotional needs, whoever meets it best will deposit so many love units, you may fall in love with that person. So if it's your need, be sure that your spouse is the one who meets it the best and most often. Men andwomen don't have too much difficulty talking to each other during courtship. That's a time of information gathering for both partners. Both are highly motivated to discover each other's likes and dislikes, personal background, current interests, and plans for the future. But after...
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What's the deal with "losing your virginity"?

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For decades now, western media and culture have made "losing your virginity" the single most important event in your life between birth and marriage. In a few decades, it went from the virtue it was during centuries. It started gradually, first for the men who had to be knowledgeable on their wedding night, even if the bride had to be pure and chaste. Then in modern times and that goes out the window, virginity is all of a sudden a handicap that implies you're unfit for the modern world and makes teenagers run around like headless chickens trying to get rid of IT . What is it that they can't do as virgins? First of all, let's start with the expression "losing your virginity". It's not like losing your keys, unless you get drugged/drunk and raped, you are either giving it up or offering it to someone you think is special in some way to you. Maybe calling it " offering your virginity " would make kids not want to stick it in s...
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Feeling smug!

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If the link fails, listen to Chesney hawkes I am the one and only  They say great minds think alike. I'm probably  not a great mind, but while reading Milan Kundera's Impossible lighness of being  I came upon this quote "“Making love with a woman and sleeping with a woman are two separate passions, not merely different but opposite. Love does not make itself felt in the desire for copulation (a desire that extends to an infinite number of women) but in the desire for shared sleep (a desire limited to one woman).” This was probably written before I was born, but I do believe it's more or less on the same page as I was rambling about in my previous post  What's the deal with loosing your virginity
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