The interesting topic

[franceslievens]

P.: Seems your LJ is the place to be recently. Your last post has generated a lot of talk. So did the other ones.
Me: I was talking about sex. What do you think?
P.: Oh. *pause* People are always the same, aren't they?

Comments

[candlelightfrot.livejournal.com]

Did P. mean all talk and no action?

Or just that people have a one-track mind?

[frances-lievens.livejournal.com]

The second. ;-)

(At least that's how I interpret it... I urged him to comment, but he doesn't want to...)

[chrissie-linnit.livejournal.com]

I wonder if, in this instance, it's more to do with the medium in which we are communicating than the direction our minds gravitate?

I'm highly comfortable talking about all these things, and more, right here in a semi-anonymous state. We all know each other that we're able to take the very light hearted banter and explore it more fully without feeling we're breaking some hidden social or moral code.

I also feel OK discussing these things here because the age barrier isn't visible. I'm 47 this year and I'd never dream of discussing intimate topics face to face with men or women not of my generation... younger women tend to thing older women are too ugly or just plain too old to 'still be doing it', guys think we're dirty old women. I think I'm a woman in my prime!

AND, here in the virtual world, looks don't matter. Suddenly every girl or guy is as sexy and beautiful as they want to be, or are perceived by the others.

P must be a drop dead gorgeous hunk to have captured the attentions of a beauty like you!

[frances-lievens.livejournal.com]

I think it's both. Our minds gravitate in that direction anyway, but the medium gives us the opportunity to actually talk about it without any feelings of insecurity. I'm a very shy person, and show it when I'm talking about very intimate feelings, but talking about it on the internet takes my shyness away. I might still do the head tilting and inapropriate smiling and looking away, but you don't see it.

47? *counts on her fingers* You're still 11 years younger than my mama. ;-)

You make me think about something I said in my class a couple of weeks ago. "Although you're all the product of it, we don't want to imagine our parents have sex." When you say such a thing, of course you imagine your parents having sex (you can't NOT think of something). You should have seen my student's faces. Priceless!

[frances-lievens.livejournal.com]

P. says: "I meant that it isn't just your LJ that's interesting, but what you are talking about. Like when you're in an auditorium filled with students and the professor blurts out 'sex' in the microphone and suddenly everyone's silent."