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Old 02-23-2005, 03:44 AM   #12 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by uptown
Mother Nature shuts down our reproductive systems once we're too old to safely bear healthy babies,in her wisdom she also causes us to wrinkle and sag,rendering us unattractive to men. You can't fight mother nature,not unless you want to look like a foolish old woman.
Damn, if you want to stop go ahead! I don't think what's right for one person is right for everyone. I also think that older people can still be physically attracted to each other, because that's not the only element to attraction. The physicality of the person you love, after being with them for so long, is deeply entwined with the spirituality, emotional bonding, mutual respect and tenderness that a healthy relationship provides. I don't understand how you can just "decide" oh no your body doesn't do it for me anymore after such a long time of being with someone, not if you love them. If you can, that's pretty cold and heartless. I plan to go on having sex for as long as I feel like it. And we don't live in the stone age anymore, when I last looked life expectancy nowadays is between 70-80 years of age on average, so saying that the menopause is your body saying lay down and act like you're dead is BULLSHIT if you ask me.
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We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.


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