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Old 08-01-2013, 09:27 AM
 
Location: Canada
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Sex is not something you get from someone, it's not something they give to you nor something you take or are owed. Sex is a shared experience that you have with another. Get over this selfish mindset if you actually want to form connections in your life.
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Old 08-01-2013, 09:34 AM
 
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Sex is something men or women "get" when they are using someone for carnal pleasure only.

Sex is something men or women "give" when they are using someone for other reasons (maybe economic).

Sex is something the violent, hateful, or criminal "take."

Sex is an experience shared between those who love each other and have a relationship with each other.

I think you can tell a lot about what someone's motivations and character are based on how they qualify the word "sex."
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Old 08-01-2013, 09:44 AM
 
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What if they DON'T want a connection but to use the other person as a living blow up doll?
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Old 08-01-2013, 09:49 AM
 
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Sex is not something you get from someone, it's not something they give to you nor something you take or are owed. Sex is a shared experience that you have with another. Get over this selfish mindset if you actually want to form connections in your life.
But...but...then the C-D Relationships forum would shrivel up and die!
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Old 08-01-2013, 10:10 AM
 
Location: Reno, NV
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Sex is an experience shared between those who love each other and have a relationship with each other.
I agree with your first three points, but not this one. Love or a relationship is not needed to share a sexual experience that is not one of your first three. It can simply by mutually enjoyable without any ulterior or negative intentions.
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Old 08-01-2013, 10:21 AM
 
Location: Pittsburgh
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I agree with your first three points, but not this one. Love or a relationship is not needed to share a sexual experience that is not one of your first three. It can simply by mutually enjoyable without any ulterior or negative intentions.
It's true that you don't have to be in a relationship to have and enjoy sex, but I think that jilla was touching on the idea that a lot of the younger guys have on this board that women don't want sex and dole it out as a reward or a payment. They talk about sex as something that a woman gives a man, not something that they share together. Women want sex, but most women want sex with a man who likes and respects her (regardless of whether she just met him or they've been married for years.)

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Old 08-01-2013, 10:25 AM
 
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It's true that you don't have to be in a relationship to have and enjoy sex, but I think that jilla was touching on the idea that a lot of the younger guys have on this board that women don't want sex and dole it out as a reward or a payment. Women want sex, but most women want sex with a man who likes and respects her (regardless of whether she just met him or they've been married for years.)
This. And I can't really understand the men who don't want the same, really.
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Old 08-01-2013, 10:26 AM
 
Location: socal baby
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no doubt, sex is a mutual shared pleasurable physical and emotional experience between two consenting adults. don't know why there is a problem suggesting want to get sum. You know as well as I do that men can readily disassociate the emotional and physical aspect of sex, and much more so than women.

frankly, i think what OP is really criticizing is the social development of sex from a romanticized intimate emotional experience to something that is now more commonly accepted as a carnal experience between two consenting adults.

don't blame popular language, what do you expect from the development of the pill where pregnancy can now be a planned experience, feminism encouraging gender equality (whats good for the goose is good for the gander), liberalism (LBGT lifestyle is ok) and pornography and technology.

i've seen it repeatedly myself over the last decade how sexual intercourse is not spoken of matter of factly amoung younger generations. Google the app Tinder, is on fire on college campuses and it's essentially a hook up app --between consenting adults.
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Old 08-01-2013, 10:28 AM
 
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frankly, i think what OP is really criticizing is the social development of sex from a romanticized intimate emotional experience to something that is now more commonly accepted as a carnal experience between two consenting adults.
I thought she was criticizing sex as a form of currency.
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Old 08-01-2013, 10:37 AM
 
Location: In the bee-loud glade
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I thought she was criticizing sex as a form of currency.
Which would make both parties guilty of commodifying sex, whether being the giver or the receiver. I think.
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