Growing Old

[poliphilo]

The sex drive is maddening. Be glad when it slackens.

But don't forget what it feels like to be in its grip. Otherwise you might turn into a moralist.

Comments

[ingenious76.livejournal.com]

All anyone ever talks about on livejournal anymore is sex.

Jesus, don't people have any sense of privacy anymore? I really couldn't give a shit what people are into. But why is there this constant sense that you have to keep reminding people that you're either doing it or once did?

[ideealisme.livejournal.com]

I don't find that so much. Sometimes I feel that I'd like to mention something sexual but feel inhibited because I don't want to make assumptions about what others are comfortable with.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, I'm terribly inhibited. Upbringing, you know.

[ideealisme.livejournal.com]

Well you know exactly how high an opinion I have of my native "culture" and its values of secrecy and reticence, all rooted in shivering prayer etc.

I don't look forward to the idea of losing my libido and if I can, I'll prevent it happening through hormone replacement or whatever. I took antidepressants once ages ago and kicked them simply because I was horrified at the effect they were having.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I'd have said I dreaded losing my libido too but, to be honest, now it's ebbing away, I feel its departure as something of a relief.

[ingenious76.livejournal.com]

I wish more people I know were like you.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I haven't found that. My friends are a reticent bunch- mostly.

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

When was the last time poliphilo blogged about sex?

[idahoswede.livejournal.com]

I hope I don't actually write about my sex life, but not because I'm puritanical - I just think it lacks class and there also has to be some part of your life that is not laid out on a platter (or computer screen) for all the world to see.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Pretty much my sentiments too.

[veronikos.livejournal.com]

The sex drive is the primary fire of internal alchemy. Although it ruins many, it is, indeed, the salvation of some few.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

It's a trial by fire- and nobody gets to refuse it....