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

To: E who wrote (32196)	3/7/1999 9:52:00 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

>>>>>A man who lusts in his heart from time to time is a man who, if it would not cost him anything, even a pang of conscience, would, almost by definition, act on that lust.<<<<< Well, a man may lust after a new Acura RSX, but he probably isn't going to steal one, even if the keys are left in the ignition switch. We all lust after money, but most of us can be trusted not to embezzle. I think you left out the moral component, that for many people it's just morally wrong, and they don't do things that are morally wrong.

To: E who wrote (32196)	3/7/1999 10:40:00 PM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

From a male viewpoint, I can say that a major factor preventing philandering is a general assumption that most available women are not simply out for an exclusively sexual fling, and that those few that are pose excessive health risks. Being caught in the middle makes scenes almost inevitable. Men, as Oscar Wilde once observed, hate scenes, and the desire to avoid the possibility of major scenes where one is indisputably wrong is often greater than the desire for immediate sexual gratification. There is usually a quick calculation, which ends with the conclusion that dalliance would risk more than it would gain. If you really like the person the equation usually changes, but this doesn't happen that often. Most men I know inevitably find that the women they really admire are unavailable or uninterested; this is as true of married men as it is for single ones, and is presumably related to the human tendency to want whatever you can't have.