"If you've never had a mother or a father," she elaborates, "you grow up seeking something you're never going to find, ever. You seek it in love and in people and in beauty."
This. Makes. Me. Sad. Anyone find this to be true?
@peaceable: Erm, my dad and mom divorced when I was five, and he just.. stopped calling when I was 12. I first had sex at 14. (And pushed every man as hard as I could to try to "prove" that they would, indeed, leave.)
@labeled: Thanks for responding. Me: No dad ever, selfish mom, sex at 14, unusually attracted to older men (got over that one though), and so on. Also, I find that I have little patience for people who are ungrateful children. At the very least, it makes me a better parent, I think.
Honestly, after spending my 20s focused on being a sexual object and not giving a shit about my own pleasure, I am very eager to grow into my sexuality more as I get older.
@Penny: Warning: It is easy to fall into the exact same trap as you age, particularly if you are in a long-term relationship. Something about some personality types requiring not just feeling good, but being desired.
I'm navigating these pretty murky waters right now with my husband, and it is... unexpected at this point in my 18years of marriage.
Wait, I thought my vagina would just fall off after age 50. And how do these women travel and write, what with the rickety, old bones and the progressively senile minds? You make it seem as if they are actual people.
@labeled: No way. Sex was fun when I was 17 but it's nothing compared to what it's like now that I'm almost 30. It is so nice to have sex without, say, keeping my bra on because I am terrified of letting my partner see my tiny boobs. Plus, I've had more than a decade to figure out how my parts work. That helps, too.
I have no doubt it will only get better as I get older.
This looks like the opening dance number in Jezebel: The Musical. In subsequent numbers, there might be dancing martini glasses swinging fetuses on sticks and songs like "The Burn Book" and "Cute Shoes! on that Snap Judgement" before the smashing finale: "Kill the Boner in all of us!" which culminates in a giant CockBib being lowered from the rafters.
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I'm a little late t the post, so this may already have been covered. But. Um. Why??
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This. Makes. Me. Sad. Anyone find this to be true?
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S not just orphans, I'm thinking.
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So I hear ya on the parenting thing.
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I'm navigating these pretty murky waters right now with my husband, and it is... unexpected at this point in my 18years of marriage.
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/slinks away after obligatory, crappy alma mater joke, awaits obligatory Anderson Cooper joke
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/just like when homer climbs the murderhorn
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I mean, other than 17yo's who think they shrivel up and die over the age of 24?
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I have no doubt it will only get better as I get older.
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I need to pull out my unicorn costume and do something with it right-quick!
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Which is now stuck in my head, damn you.
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