[lit-ideas] Re: Valentine's Day Meditations
- From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 14:52:37 -0500
For what it's worth, I'll comment that teenage sex looks good from the outside.
On the inside it's fraught with anxiety. Often it's a search for love and a
settling for sex. Maybe the newest generations of kids will change that with
their "hooking up" and allegedly normalizing of oral sex as not really sex.
(Does Maureen Dowd address this in her book?) I suspect that some variation of
"loose" is still applied to girls, and fuck you has not morphed into a positive
expression. When Princess Di and Prince Charles got married, they were the
classic lucky couple, picture of happiness. Their marriage turned into a
nightmare. Likewise, all those balloons and teddy bears make a nice cover for
the untold story underneath.
Apologies to Lawrence. He's a nice guy, loves his country. I love my country
too. We love it in different ways. That's because it's a democracy and we can
do that.
----- Original Message -----
From: Paul Stone
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: 2/15/2006 2:23:10 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Valentine's Day Meditations
AA:Anybody need any more evidence that (outside of a committed relationship)
sex and love are all but mutually exclusive? If power of one form or another
was taken out of sex, lust, for that matter even interest in sex, would
disappear. Not changing the subject. Lust, power, war they're all on the same
continuum.
Yesterday, as I returned from lunch, I drove through our town, and being the
day that it was, there were countless "couples" of high school kids walking arm
in arm with all manner of balloons, teddy bears, some even with flowers. It
seemed more about the 'love' than the sex. I remembered fondly the innocent
handing out of valentines when we were in school. In the interest of fairness,
we HAD to give one to every person of the opposite sex, but we could be
especially smoochy to the girls we really liked. The same applied to girls. It
was kind of nice to find 14 or 15 valentines in our little construction-paper
sleeves hung at the back of the room with our names on it. It was an easy
measure of who 'really' liked whom.
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Paul Stone
pas@xxxxxxxx
Kingsville, ON, Canada
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