Archive for May, 2007
Long Distance Dating
30 May 2007
“Heavy-boned boy meets ex ice-cream scooper.” Sound like a teen love story?
As it happens, it’s a budding romance between two thirty-somethings who are getting to know each other using instant messaging.
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Biological Imperative
21 May 2007
Just because we girls can get pregnant, does that mean we have to have babies?!
This is a rhetorical question, one that I considered with disdain after I saw the new-release movie, Waitress.
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The Game of Flirting
17 May 2007
Recently I heard an Italian woman speak on “The Art of Love,” but what I mainly heard her talking about was flirting as a lost art.
“Political correctness in the U.S. has discouraged flirting between the sexes,” she said. I also heard her say something to the effect of, “And now that flirting as play has been rejected, casual sex as play is the new game.”
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Married and Bi
7 May 2007
I have several gay men friends who keep me informed about gay culture. This is a good thing otherwise I’d be a total ignoramus apropos other ways of being in the world.
Until we’re prompted to think about it, we can easily overlook or ignore the fact that human sexuality is not as simple as we’d like to believe. Appropriately, my gay mates keep me thinking.
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The Drama of Love
1 May 2007
Whenever I hear of teens falling in love, I use Romeo and Juliet as a point of reference. It helps me get over my cynicism.
I’m not sure why the story of the sixteenth century lovers who died to be together alleviates my belief that betrothals under the age of forty constitute a starter marriage. Perhaps their drama simply reminds me that people are capable of falling in love - at any age.
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