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2007-12-31 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Secure relationship bad for women's sex drive

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Posted by john frum 2007-12-31 14:58|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 This needed to be researched?

Posted by Raj 2007-12-31 15:13|| 2007-12-31 15:13|| Front Page Top

#2 Best way to spoil a perfectly good romance: Get married.

People can hide stuff for years even sometimes and the instant the ring goes on the facade comes off.

Posted by gorb 2007-12-31 15:18|| 2007-12-31 15:18|| Front Page Top

#3 I liken it to "biological imperatives".

Males have one, to spread their DNA around.

Females have two: to get the best male DNA for their offspring; and to bond with the best provider male to help them raise their offspring. However, when there is an abundance of males, these are usually not the same guy.

This is why people evolved that concept of marriage. It raises the relationship to a better than biological level for all concerned. The female promises the male that the offspring will be his. The male promises exclusivity to the female and nurturing to her offspring. And it is far better for the offspring to have two parents.

But marriage only works when it is an enforced contract. Since society itself no longer enforces it, the courts have stepped in to replicate its advantages--on behalf of the offspring.

It has yet to replicate all the advantages to both females and males that exist in marriage, but I suspect it will develop in that same direction. DNA testing definitely changes the equation.

Posted by Anonymoose 2007-12-31 15:40|| 2007-12-31 15:40|| Front Page Top

#4 This is Germany... and German men. And both women and men expect husbands to have affairs while their wives wait at home for the repairman to show up.

Posted by trailing wife">trailing wife 2007-12-31 16:37|| 2007-12-31 16:37|| Front Page Top

#5 That may be mythical. I imagine if Helmut even suggests an open marriage, Helga hits him over the head with a cast iron skillet, as much as if they were people anywhere else.

Or, when he proposes a threesome, she says, "Fine, who is the other guy?" That shuts hubby up in a hurry.

Posted by Anonymoose 2007-12-31 18:00|| 2007-12-31 18:00|| Front Page Top

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