bobover3 (imported) wrote: Sat Jan 24, 2009 1:05 pm A-1, all this happened before AIDS, as already mentioned. I don't think any of it was irresponsible to "self, partner, or society." If you think it is, from anything other than the standpoint of someone who dislikes "roller coaster rides," you'll need to explain.
I don't consider my experiences to be the same kind of excitement as yours. I cannot really explain it. Maybe not less or more, not better or worse, just different.
I did get caught parked one night as a teenager, I ran off in a ditch trying to get away. It was a deputy sheriff, and he didn't turn his red lights on. I told him that I did not know that he was law enforcement. He told me that he thought that we were doing dope. I told him that was not what we were doing. He ended up pulling me out of the ditch with his squad car and my tow chain.
Pretty exciting, wouldn't you say? I was with a girl. All I ever parked with was girls, I don't know why, but it is preference, like you say. Good thing, though, he probably would not have helped me otherwise. That is how it was where I lived as a youngster. People treated other people pretty poorly. Me, I would have helped anyone, regardless. I guess that we will never know for sure about the cop, though.
bobover3 (imported) wrote: Sat Jan 24, 2009 1:05 pm Far from harming my self, I greatly enriched my experience of life. I obviously had no "partner." I was a young single man, with no plans to have a "partner." Another benefit of roller coasters is that hangers on tend to fall off.
Yes, if they are not well grounded, i.e. strapped in for the ride. And you DID have a partner, just for the time that it took. Another person to share with is your partner. When the dance is over, it is over, but some dances last longer than others. We BOTH understand that. Some dances are short and fast and some are long and slow. Preference again.
bobover3 (imported) wrote: Sat Jan 24, 2009 1:05 pm That "society" was harmed seems to me laughable. The ethic of my time was that anything that made the guardians of respectability uneasy must be a good thing.
It is a good thing, because the respectable are sometimes running form themselves and their pent-up urges. Criticism for the sake of criticism is never justified. Society includes GAY society, and there ARE social groups in areas where Gays live and play.
bobover3 (imported) wrote: Sat Jan 24, 2009 1:05 pm In fact, that's still my ethic. Societies progress because of the eternal tension between the conservative forces of conformity and order and the creative forces of experimentation and disorder. Both are indispensible to a healthy society, and both are at their worst when they indulge in clucking disapproval of the other side.
Does work two ways, doesn't it?
What I mean here is that consenting adults who know what they are getting themselves into and the ramifications of their actions, nothing more, nothing less.
eality, even if it's a reality that frightens you.A-1 (imported) wrote: Sat Jan 24, 2009 11:28 am immediate" This is you, moralizing. The experiences we've discussed here couldn't be more real, just as real as you walking arm in arm with your Lady through a park with violin music. I believe these experiences were closer to reality than the rituals of conventional courtship. This is so because these people were acting from their hearts, from their deepest feelings, with no thought of seeking official approval. I've written that no one really knows what's sexually normal because sex is not public behavior. People acting from passion are real. People doing what's expected are only conforming. Far from being an escape from reality, these were flights *toward* r
Perhaps you should understand then that there was a time when it was so for me. (an escape form reality) Sex is public behavior if done in public. However, what you mean by "sex" is not taken the same way by everyone. To some, contact of any ki
hy is this any the less "immediate gratification"?bobover3 (imported) wrote: Sat Jan 24, 2009 1:05 pm nd in some societies or societal subgroups is 'sex'.
Immediate gratification? If a married heterosexual couple fucked, w
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sex, as an expression of their superior morality?bobover3 (imported) wrote: Sat Jan 24, 2009 1:05 pm t's NOT, not really. It all depends on the context.
Are you saying that married heterosexuals seldom engage in
No, it is generally and age and familiarity thing...
Is it wrong to occasionally review happy memories?bobover3 (imported) wrote: Sat Jan 24, 2009 1:05 pm Not really anything about sexual preferences. O.K.?
We agree that it sucks to grow old, even for right-thinking heterosexuals.
No, absolutely not, and memories are what we cherish
riptions that it's their duty to impose on others.bobover3 (imported) wrote: Sat Jan 24, 2009 1:05 pm as we grow older. ...And thanks for sharing yours.
I'd suggest everyone would be happier not attempting to elevate their personal tastes into moral presc
No moral prescription. Just an observation that I believe that you hav
d in which "cocksucker" was no longer a pejorative.bobover3 (imported) wrote: Sat Jan 24, 2009 1:05 pm e met, in your own social group and in your own way.
Remember "Change You Can Believe In"? Change I could believe in would be a worl
It is a dirty word just like FUCK.
Perhaps you can explain to me why we have to have dirty words for things that we as humans derive so much joy and pleasure from.
What pisses me off is the denigration of women who enjoy havng sex. You know, it happens all of the time, by men and by society, and it is not a good thing.