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

To: Ilaine who wrote (32230)	3/8/1999 12:45:00 PM
From: E	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

<E.'s point, if I understand it right, is that most men would stray if they could get away with it, but they don't think they can get away with it, or don't want to risk it. > It's so distressing to see oneself paraphrased inaccurately just as one is preparing to leave town for a few days! Your interpretation above is close, but it does leave out a point I made several times. I am saying that not only most, but virtually all normal males who were able to hobble in the direction of a felicitously positioned naked female would choose to have more than one sexual partner in the last 40 or 50 years of their lives, if there were little or no cost, or risk of cost, to this action. I said that of course pangs of conscience, fear of hell, shame, are all 'costs!' As an afterthought, I happen to think this is true of women, too, though intuitively I'd guess that while a man so unfettered by 'cost' considerations would probably have hundreds or thousands of partners in the course of his sexual life (if he were socially positioned to attract them, as only a sheikh or pro basketball player is today), an unfettered woman might have only several dozens. The "if he [or she] were socially positioned to attract them" is a big 'if,' though, so men shouldn't get too excited at the theoretical prospect of A New Society! So, in short, "getting away with it," isn't enough to count as cost free. You'd have, also, not to suffer mental pain of various sorts. I suspect that the sexual latitudinarianism modeled by the media now is lessening those painful feelings of guilt or shame, and that that has an impact on behavior choices. One does so want to be trendy, doesn't one, lol! Latitudinarianism is recognized as a legit word by SI spellcheck, isn't that surprising?