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From: hollombe@ttidcc.UUCP (The Polymath)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: PMS and incompetence
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Date: Thu, 1-Aug-85 18:24:49 EDT
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In article <2517@sun.uucp> sunny@sun.uucp (Ms. Sunny Kirsten) writes:
>                                                     ... Men tend to be
>always operating with sexual interest as a high-priority background
>function which keeps intruding on their work. ...
>           ... Back in the old days, I all to often watched previously
>intelligent conversations between men grind to a total halt, or to
>blithering idiocy, as some nice looking woman walked by, and when she'd
>disappeared from sight, would turn to discussion of her "fuckability"
>rather than back to work.  (was that blunt enough? no, not really).  This
>behavior pattern is most observable in a group of only men.  The presence
>of women reduces it's effects.  Much of it is a very animalistic jousting
>between the men to prove to each other who is the horniest.

I'm wondering about the average age of those groups  of  men  you  watched.
I'm  familiar  with the attitude from my own experience.  For me, at least,
the phenomenon started to fade out about  my  early  thirties  and  is  now
almost  completely  gone  (I'm  37).  This  is  not  to  say that I've lost
interest in sex (far from it).  However, the urgency that made it "a  high-
priority  background  job"  is gone.  In a manner of speaking, my brain has
finally wrested control from my gonads (and has  no  intention  of  letting
go).

For the younger men on the net who may be reading this and looking  forward
with horror let me add that, all in all, it's a vast relief.  Relationships
run much more smoothly, dates are no longer sabotaged by wondering "will we
or  won't  we"  for  hours,  and going home alone from a party is no longer
cause  for  frustration/mourning  (-:.   Likewise  there  are   far   fewer
distractions in the work place (to return to the original subject).

Interestingly, many women I've known report the opposite effect  with  age.
They  frequently  complain of increasing horniness and fewer interested men
(and people wonder why I prefer older women (-:{ ).

Just adding fuel to the discussion ...
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