Re: Porn letter makes me glad I'm gay
by
spiderpigscantfly
08/29/2008, 1:15 AM #
Mitamay:Your preference is your choice, but don't go knocking on a woman who just gave birth and is unable to 'hook up' her husband. Of course the woman is gonna feel betrayed; she's gone through who knows how many hours of pain for him to bring HIS child into the world, going through sleepless nights, not to mention the changes in hormones and lifestyle, only to find out that her hubby is oogling T&A on a computer.
She's going to wonder that since she's not in the mood to do anything with him, if he's going to cheat on her. His looking at porn makes it look like he shopping around...if he's looking at dating sites, even more so. I'm eight months along myself, and I admit, I do feel bad about not being able to get into the mood to do anything (if this grosses you out, sorry). I'm going to be a first-time mom myself, and I can't help but wonder how the baby will affect things.
So if you're only going to date men, that's fine. But don't act like as though you're turning your nose up at women in general. Excuse the hell outta us for having a vagina, and not being able to constantly attend to a man's 'needs'. Gay or not, your ass wouldn't even be here WITHOUT your MOTHER!
Actually, my sexual orientation (which you call my "preference") is not my choice.
I'm not turning my nose up at women, and I'm not knocking on new mothers. I'm not saying that women ought to "constantly attend" to their partners' sexual needs. I am saying that when the stress of having a new baby makes a mother uninterested in sex, she needs to acknowledge that her partner still has sexual needs. She should give her partner permission to masturbate. If he needs visual stimulation to get aroused, as many men do, she ought to give him permission to look at pornography (unless, I suppose, she's inviting him to masturbate in front of her).
There's a big difference between going to dating sites and looking at pornography. If a man goes to dating sites, that is a sign that he is shopping around. If he looks at pornography, that definitely does not mean that he is shopping around. Quite the opposite: it means that he's doing his best to stay faithful.
Look, all men, even men who are deeply in love, sometimes have sexual thoughts about people other than their partners. In the age of the Internet, almost all men look at pornography at least occasionally. If a man looks at pornography, it doesn't mean that he doesn't love his wife, or that he isn't attracted to her. It means that he has red blood flowing through his veins. I understand this about men, so if I ever catch my future partner looking at porn, I am not going to feel threatened. I think it's unfortunate that many women (by no means all) feel that porn is a threat. It really isn't.