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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (15879)	1/19/1998 10:50:00 PM
From: j g cordes	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Alexa, your reply is provocative for a variety of reasons... not the least of which is comparing my own experiences in life with your assertions, and wondering what it is that really does count for something in relationships... and what women and men want. You say females look for strength, health, and dominance. Honestly I've closed on more sexually intended relationships with humor and empathy. Now you've got me wondering if my repartee was actually a subliminal signal of biceps, triceps, obliques, wallet and chest beating! It wasn't. My guess is that women are victims or champions of their own search for dominance in evolutionary terms within the confines of our discussion. They want separate nests, their own mates for the most part, and don't typically (in most cultures) volunteer into harems that collectively agree to be impregnated by a stud of the year or season... unless its Elvis or the Beatles of course. Since any one man is not harem available to any or all women, I suggest that women and men "contest" for each other, that men don't just contest for women. Money is a more difficult concept, because its a recent development in anthropologic history. Money, while it has its roots in earlier times, has in modern times become something more than the glint of its parts. Its not just the goods it buys, or the security it portends, nor does it offer protection for the woman to raise her young. Money has been soft wired into our media and from media into our receptive and eager map for survival and happiness in our culture. Its the balm of material life.. and it even stretches well into tempting passage for a spiritual life as well. This has even gone so far as to suggest that credit can substitute for money, thus 'to charge' is being in charge, and millions of people have gone permanently into debt for that dream. Most often the rich old codger isn't with a younger woman for "breeding" opportunity, but to reflect back from her form a younger self inside his mind and/or the value that's reflected back at him from their social environment... She most often doesn't want to "breed" either. Stepping aside this stilted view, some people just really enjoy each others company in spite of age differences, money or appearances. That's when science takes a turn for the better I think, having to make leaps of artistic, intuitive and emotional conciliation that there's a lot happening at all ages that's not simply explained. Jim