Reply #155: I can totally relate to this! [View All]

[Withywindle]

I think this generation that grew up with rap has a little bit more open view of sexuality and don't expect women to be so damn coy and game-playing when it comes to that kind of thing, behaviors I a)suck at and b)find incredibly boring. I'm kind of tired of getting my feelings hurt by prudish men.

I had weird socialization in that I was abused so badly by female "friends" as a child that when I was a teen, all the people I was friends with and trusted were male and older (I'm female) so I picked up a certain...style...of dealing with sex and relationships, just from conversations.

I'm direct. I have a lot of diverse sexual experience and I don't hide it; in fact I consider it a great asset. (Why is that the only realm where experience and practice is considered to detract from one's, er, "employment value"...well, only if you're female). I don't do that "The Rules" shit. I don't pretend to be dumber or less ambitious than I am, and I'm not willing to spend more money on my looks than on music and books and travel for ANYBODY....and for most of my life I was mostly into older men, but then I hit 30 and it turns out the next great love of my life would turn out to be younger, and enamored of all the qualities in me that were starting to scare older guys off. Go figure.