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Old 07-14-2010, 06:45 PM
 
Location: Iowa, Heartland of Murica
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Sub/Dom relationship? What the hell? Do you tell people with a straight face that you are in a slave/master relationship? Now, you want to sleep with your best friend? I think some therapy here is way overdue, what is this world coming to?!

 
Old 07-14-2010, 06:53 PM
 
Location: southern california
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Again, same thing I asked of the other posters who stated something as factual - source this. Prove your assertion. Saying it does not make it so. Where did you obtain this information? Who conducted the study? What was the statistical sample?
personal experience and many professional friends in the MHS business.
multiple counselors and counselor directors in EAP and marriage and family counseling. you may DM me-- i dont flash credentials on a public forum. swinging is a devastating social experiment. your best friend uses your love to betray you by forcing you to do something utterly contrary to your own core values. takes years of therapy to even begin to undo the damage.
good ol home grown sheer evil.

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Old 07-14-2010, 06:56 PM
 
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I didn't know you were only 23 years old. Sorry. I hope life ends up working out for you.

 
Old 07-14-2010, 06:57 PM
 
Location: Copiague, NY
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On the other hand, you might be able to live your dream by tapping upon your creative juices and do the smart thing :
Ask your lady friend, to have her guy call (or text) to your guy, something like: "Hey, why don't you and Maria come
by for a little get-together on Saturday afternoon, We can watch the ballgame (that wouldn't be a lie, unless he asks,
who is ballin'?).You almost need to liquor him up, put on Victoria's most revealing secret, head over to your BGF's place,
where all four of you can turn on the mood music, fire-up a big fat-ass blunt and...GET DOWN!

Trust me Maria,
these things seem to always find a way to work themselves out.
 
Old 07-14-2010, 07:01 PM
 
Location: Wherever I go...
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Originally Posted by Huckleberry3911948 View Post
personal experience and many professional friends in the MHS business.
multiple counselors and counselor directors in EAP and marriage and family counseling. you may DM me-- i dont flash credentials on a public forum. swinging is a devestating social experiment. your best friend uses your love to betray you by forcing you to do something utterly contrary to your own core values. takes years of therapy to even begin to undo the damage.
good ol home grown sheer evil.
So in other words, nothing but an opinion. No actual facts. No verifiable statistics.

Right. Gotcha.

Do you remember the opinions of those same types of professionals about things like masturbation, female orgasms, or even homosexuality?

Your credentials don't actually matter, particularly given the fact that it's easy to find someone with the same or even better credentials to refute you. He said/she said. Opinions. Not facts.

Prove your assertion. If this is such a devastating social experiment as you claim, surely someone has proven that by now?
 
Old 07-14-2010, 07:09 PM
 
Location: Hawaii
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Oh!We are not friends with benefits we are mutually exclusive with one another.
I know, I just threw out an example of something that most people think is on the tamer side of freaky but people here aren't too understanding about.

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I have not formulated a plan as to how to ask him.
Good luck
 
Old 07-14-2010, 07:12 PM
 
Location: Wherever I go...
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personal experience and many professional friends in the MHS business.
multiple counselors and counselor directors in EAP and marriage and family counseling. you may DM me-- i dont flash credentials on a public forum. swinging is a devestating social experiment. your best friend uses your love to betray you by forcing you to do something utterly contrary to your own core values. takes years of therapy to even begin to undo the damage.
good ol home grown sheer evil.
Just to give perspective on the value of these professional opinions...

Asserting that swinging is a devastating social experiment, based on the people those in the mental health field come into contact with, is about on par with asserting that the global population is schizophrenic or bipolar based solely on the people the mental health field is counseling.

It is a field where contact with individuals is almost entirely based on those individuals actually having a problem. Now, the smart person looks at the rest of the functioning world and says, "well obviously the entire population isn't schizophrenic. Look at all these people going about their lives, obviously doing just fine." And so we understand that just because the people the therapist sees during work hours are mentally ill, that doesn't mean the population as whole is.

With something like swinging, or most alternative lifestyles, you instead jump to the conclusion that because the people seen IN therapy are issue-laden, everyone else involved in those lifestyles must be as well?

That is so completely illogical as to just be absurd.
 
Old 07-14-2010, 07:12 PM
 
Location: The Hall of Justice
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Originally Posted by Huckleberry3911948 View Post
personal experience and many professional friends in the MHS business.
multiple counselors and counselor directors in EAP and marriage and family counseling. you may DM me-- i dont flash credentials on a public forum. swinging is a devestating social experiment. your best friend uses your love to betray you by forcing you to do something utterly contrary to your own core values. takes years of therapy to even begin to undo the damage.
good ol home grown sheer evil.
Someone mentioned Loveline earlier--it's a radio show where people call in with questions about sex. It's safe to assume that many of the callers have problems because they are calling in because of their problems. It's the same with therapy, counseling, EAP: those people are there because they are unhappy. You seem to be ignoring the people who are not in therapy because their lives suit them just fine.
 
Old 07-14-2010, 07:13 PM
 
Location: southern california
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Someone mentioned Loveline earlier--it's a radio show where people call in with questions about sex. It's safe to assume that many of the callers have problems because they are calling in because of their problems. It's the same with therapy, counseling, EAP: those people are there because they are unhappy. You seem to be ignoring the people who are not in therapy because their lives suit them just fine.
many heroin addicts are not in therapy bek " their lives suit them just fine". that does not mean heroin is good for you. but the drug addict will argue that it is, as will the sex addict argue that swinging is good for him and his unwilling spouse.
 
Old 07-14-2010, 07:13 PM
 
Location: The Hall of Justice
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Just to give perspective on the value of these professional opinions...

Asserting that swinging is a devastating social experiment, based on the people those in the mental health field come into contact with, is about on par with asserting that the global population is schizophrenic or bipolar based solely on the people the mental health field is counseling.

It is a field where contact with individuals is almost entirely based on those individuals actually having a problem. Now, the smart person looks at the rest of the functioning world and says, "well obviously the entire population isn't schizophrenic. Look at all these people going about their lives, obviously doing just fine." And so we understand that just because the people the therapist sees during work ours are mentally ill, that doesn't mean the population as whole is.

With something like swinging, or most alternative lifestyles, you instead jump to the conclusion that because the people seen IN therapy are issue-laden, everyone else involved in those lifestyles must be as well.
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