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Alex Oliver's avatar

Very insightful Mr O.

An interesting issue (as opposed to several illegitimate ones) and, depraved as I might have been (non-commital), for which several females I apologise to but I confused sex and love as a combined article - that is, love between a man and a woman, not rude rhubarb. But knowing how scheming girls could/can/will be I thought we'd be united in those escapades. But people see things differently and we can read our own interpretations into what is or isn't happening.

This is an interesting read - or perhaps girls will see it differently and picture male readers groping for their halibut, bent as that may be. But hormonal control is something we all should acknowledge - I.E. ITS control over us.

Once one has attained the capacity to hug/look at women without wondering about abandoned groans etc as most of their lives had been, it feels a little calmer if not dissappointing. We can turn it off, but the madman, ol Belzebub, he can convince us it's him who swayed our amorous thoughts on the Virgin Mary, grandma etc.

Yet, on a cleaner note, is it not our 'drive', whatever that may be, that sends explorers, artists, avaitrixes and even poetses into that rarified air, that relentless effort? And whose drive is it? Nature? - ah, you mean that thing that seems to destroy as well as create? Alas, there are no chains for me, for I'm as mad as mad as mad can be

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Elizabeth Cusack, Poet, Author's avatar

Interesting! From a female perspective, I can say I never think of sex or men. I think of love and men I love and prefer to think of little else. It is the libido but perhaps a different expression of the same life force. I am not a Freudian and do not engage on that level.

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