Evidently Spring is in the air.
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johnny9fingersA virtual chum, vox_diabolica, said in a comment to an earlier post (and I paraphrase) that he found it strange that his generation should be more 'traditional' than the one preceding it, which is the one to which I belong.
Admittedly, he's a Christian of a sophisticated kind, which would render him somewhat narrower of scope in some respects than a chap who left school to be a guitarist and sleep in a squat, but even so....
But I do find, the openness with which I grew up has been stifled in so many ways.
The polymorphous perversity of the seventies was an odd place and odd time, but it informed my live and let live attitude. When it came to drugs and sex I was an experimentalist, and to some extent, still am. Too old for white drugs I still smoke weed. Though I am at present chaste, it is not through choice: I never seem to meet appropriate women, and though I've tried the 'other thing' (it is necessary to know, you know) I found that it didn't suit, alas and alack: it will not do for me. Few (if indeed any) men are attractive, and almost all women are. It appears you can't change the way you're made, and I'm too bloody old to dissemble without feeling irritated.
So, I'm reluctantly heterosexual.
Reluctantly chaste.
And probably bored beyond human ken, but still, somewhere at the end of the bell-curve.....
Hope is one of those awful human emotional virii, like shingles it can strike when totally unawares: but maybe just down the Street, or around the corner....
vox_diabolica, said in a comment to an earlier post (and I paraphrase) that he found it strange that his generation should be more 'traditional' than the one preceding it, which is the one to which I belong.Admittedly, he's a Christian of a sophisticated kind, which would render him somewhat narrower of scope in some respects than a chap who left school to be a guitarist and sleep in a squat, but even so....
But I do find, the openness with which I grew up has been stifled in so many ways.
The polymorphous perversity of the seventies was an odd place and odd time, but it informed my live and let live attitude. When it came to drugs and sex I was an experimentalist, and to some extent, still am. Too old for white drugs I still smoke weed. Though I am at present chaste, it is not through choice: I never seem to meet appropriate women, and though I've tried the 'other thing' (it is necessary to know, you know) I found that it didn't suit, alas and alack: it will not do for me. Few (if indeed any) men are attractive, and almost all women are. It appears you can't change the way you're made, and I'm too bloody old to dissemble without feeling irritated.
So, I'm reluctantly heterosexual.
Reluctantly chaste.
And probably bored beyond human ken, but still, somewhere at the end of the bell-curve.....
Hope is one of those awful human emotional virii, like shingles it can strike when totally unawares: but maybe just down the Street, or around the corner....
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Date: 2008-02-21 12:06 pm (UTC)I probably do, but that would be a function of experience. However I doubt I know more about you and your beliefs and opinions than you.