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Abstinence thong: Irony you can wear
lingerie, marriage etc.| 2 Comments »In case you can’t read the small print, it says
“Earn the right to wear white.”
ABSTAIN
Goodness. Where to begin?
Who wears white? The Bride, of course. The Princess for a Day. The Virgin Offering. Certainly not her potential husband. You don’t see any abstinence boxers out there. So, the target audience for these words of mind-control encouragement [...]
Maybe it’s mostly for extroverts?
Ilona's Take, marriage etc.| 1 Comment »All you need is love!
Love is a many-splendored thing.
Love makes the world go round.
How many more of those could we come up with? Love, love, love. We talk about it a lot, we sing about it constantly. We read about it, write about it, seek it in our daily lives. Some people seek it more [...]
What if you’re not allowed to have a headache?
marriage etc.| 1 Comment »Guaranteed sex. Required. Promised, even. Every day. Every single day, come hell, high water, or headaches.
Good idea? Bad idea?
Two couples, each experiencing a bit of a marital lull, each came up with the same solution: daily sex for a pre-determined period of time. 101 days for one couple (the Browns, Annie and Douglas), and a [...]
Clothes and the woman
lingerie, marriage etc.| No Comments »Clothes have always had multiple purposes. They keep us warm, dry, and protected from the elements. They preserve modesty, protect others from unpleasant sights, maintain that element of surprise. And they say something about the wearer — his or her social position, affluence, education level, cultural background.
To those in the know in each style [...]
Infidelity if necessary but not necessarily infidelity
Ilona's Take, marriage etc.| 4 Comments »Monogamy and infidelity. Just like the old song says about love and marriage, “you can’t have one without the other”. Well, you can’t have infidelity without the assumption of monogamy, at any rate. Can you have monogamy without infidelity?
Stats on the rates of infidelity vary widely. (Because people lie about this, don’t they?) Men stray [...]