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i mean, it must be high or low
by anna at 06:58 PM on June 10, 2005
Time was the Western world valued its virgins. Gentlemen were allowed to whore around with all the bar wenches they wanted. But when it came time for wedding bells to toll, you'd have to dig up an unsullied virgin. In other words, an inexperienced, fearful and possibly frigid young lass. Hence all the adultery with said bar wenches in times of yore.
Some countries still do. Entire families can be ostracized if a woman has sex out of wedlock. She could also wind up being stoned, and not in the good way either.
Nowadays in these parts is more about your "number" i.e. the number of partners you've done the deed with. It is the Clintonian definition of sex. Monicas and hand-jobs don't count. So you start at your first horizontal mambo experience and work your way forward. But every time you think you've got it, someone else pops into your head.
When I set about compiling mine (44 BTW) I was really wracking my brain to be comprehensive. "Well, that sure was quick!"... the hard concrete dock in the pond... AM tampon mission... playing footsie under my/her parents' table with them there... answered phones... my stolen wallet...awkward use of dirty talk...and so on. Most sordid experience, looking back.
The number is one of the most popular questions in those so-called "speed-dating" sessions. I'd imagine a lot of inflating (guys?) and deflating (girls?) goes on. You know, that one really didn't count because... Or, we didn't really finish but it was close enough. And I'd imagine most speed daters have a range in mind. But I wonder what it is. Is a high number desirable? Can it be too high or low? What is optimal? And what an awkward question to ask? It's like trying to introduce toys or handcuffs or something into the bedroom for the first time. How would one go about that without fear of someone laughing in your face?
So, what is yours? What does it say about you? What might it mean when choosing potential mates?
comments (13)
This drove me crazy:
http://www.wingnuttoons.com/bana.mov
by LOCKHEED at June 12, 2005 3:11 PM
Impressive. Myself... three, two if I'm Bill Clinton. What does it mean when choosing potential mates? I'm not sure. What does it say about me? I think it says that I've been slow to get together with people, slow to break up, and slow to find new people. But I like the menz nonetheless.
by jean at June 14, 2005 1:42 AM
You mean you blew somebody and that was it? That is what always puzzled me about the Clinton-Lewinsky thing, the lack o' reciprocity. It sucks. :(
by anna at June 14, 2005 7:41 AM
Yeah, it was pretty idiotic. I was young. Geez Anna, I was trying not to say it straight out! :)
by jean at June 15, 2005 2:54 AM
Actually, he was interested in reciprocating, but I didn't want to keep seeing him.
by jean at June 15, 2005 2:56 AM
Having never done the purely one-sided act those two made famous, I just cannot imagine the unbreachable awkwardness afterwards. I mean, what do you say?
by anna at June 15, 2005 7:35 AM
How about, "Come here often?"
by Long Time Lurker at June 15, 2005 11:07 AM
Or cum here often?
by anna at June 15, 2005 6:56 PM
With all the people you've been with Anna, you've never done that? Seriously?
by jean at June 17, 2005 8:24 PM
Not JUST that. It wouldn't seem right. I am all about what's right unless it doesn't quite suit me.
by anna at June 18, 2005 8:07 AM
You say things have changed, and that people are more concerned these days with a woman's "number" than they are with her virginity. Then you say that when altering their numbers, women estimate lower...because a high number would indicate that they are sluts...and here we are back at the "virgins are better" mentality. Hm, interesting eh.
by jj at June 18, 2005 9:40 PM
Yeah it's the whole Madonna/whore thing. Jeri Hall said that men want a chef in the kitchen, a maid in the living room and a whore in the bedroom. She then added that she can hire a chef and a maid.
by anna at June 19, 2005 7:42 AM
Considering Jeri got 50 Mil. from a divorce I guess we know why she didn't need to hire the whore.
by Dwimmerlaik at June 26, 2005 12:12 AM