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To: bentway who wrote (441717)	12/21/2008 10:41:52 AM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572940

But us poor heteros have to apply, scheme, grovel, lay out the bucks, get to at least the third date, sometimes only to come up with bupkas. Some of you do.

To: bentway who wrote (441717)	12/21/2008 11:40:27 AM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 1572940

Maybe you should consider switching teams - see the bookwormroom post below. Course there is the HIV thing, but you run that risk with border bordellos and the homeless women you claim to take in for sex. I'm guessing you're way too old to get any college age girls to do the hookup thing unless a massive amount of booze is applied. Maybe you could cruise around college bars at night looking for drunken young women like the old pervert, Garrison Keillor: Message 25268809 Will there be a cause-effect here? Bookworm on Dec 18 2008 \| Filed under: Sex One of the saddest aspects of 21st Century male-female relationships is the “hooking up” culture — a concept that takes the love and affection and commitment out of male-female relationships, and just turns them into insta-sex moments. There is every reason to believe that this new culture is especially damaging to women, who seem to be hard wired to connect love and sex. Ironically, though, feminists tout it as some wonderful equality thing, even though the only person who would approve of it wholeheartedly, and who has been advocating it for 50 plus years, is Hugh Hefner. Putting aside the ramifications for women (all negative, I think), it does occur to me that there might be one somewhat weird byproduct of this hooking up culture, and that is a lessening in the number of gay men. My theory arises from the premise that, at least according to Kinsey, while some men are entirely heterosexual, and some entirely homosexual, there are guys in the middle who can go either way, depending on the opportunity offered. Growing up in San Francisco in the wild 70s, I concluded that a lot of the gays in San Francisco were guys who could go either way, depending on cultural norms, and who chose gay sex because of the availability of unlimited, emotion-free sex. In the old days of male-female relationships (before gays came out of the closet), unless you wanted to pay for it, getting sex meant investments of time, money and emotional energy. Even if you (the guy) didn’t feel a loving emotion for the girl, you’d better pretend there was one if you wanted her to put out. For those who valued orgasms more than relationships, though, and who weren’t squeamish about gay sex, the bathhouses were a dream come true. With a little help from drugs (poppers, I think), it was entirely possible to have dozens of emotion-free sexual contacts in a single night. In other words, the gay bathhouses made the fantasy of unlimited sexual encounters entirely feasible, and thousands of men embraced it — to their eternal, HIV-ridden regret. Under the new hook-up paradigm, those men who are sexually open to going either way, even though they prefer women, and who enjoy the male fantasy of sex without the burdens of commitment and emotions, finally can have it all. They can stay on the heterosexual side of the street, but get all the “no-strings” sex they want (and without having to pay for it either). Of course, aside from the fact that this culture seems to be very, very, very damaging to young women’s psyches, I also fear another HIV-ridden regret cycle, one that will be especially hard on women, who seem to be more vulnerable to the virus. bookwormroom.com