Saturday, the 3rd of February

Here I go. How about writing a post every day? Yes, I want to give it a go. Wish me luck that I can keep it up!

Heute ist ein schöner Tag!

Today is a nice day!

I was sitting outside in a light breeze feeling very content and meditating to my heart’s content. I memorised some things out of different stages of my life. For instance I thought about it how different people may actually see me. I am sure there was a time when a lot of people, mainly women, thought that I was something like a sex-pot. Behind my back they would make snide remarks about me. Anyway, this is how I remember it, that indeed some good loyal friends sometimes opened up to me about it.

Do a lot of people still see me that way now that I am approaching 90? What do you think?

Funny enough I still love to read and talk about sex very openly! It seems to me a lot has changed in sexual matters, especially during the last 20 years or so. For instance, very decent people choose not to get married anymore to have a sexual relationship. Also, more and more committed relationships do not last for very long. A person may have multiple relationships during a lifetime. It is really quite unusual now that a marriage lasts a lifetime for the percentage of divorces is on a steady increase. Partly maybe it has to do with that the average lifespan is more and more on the increase.

And what do you think has women’s liberation to do with it?

And how does it affect the children? In Western society the birthrate is getting very low. Who has still a lot of children?

Are we Equals?

http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/no-sex-please-were-equals-20140217-32umo.html

 

I just read the above article in the Sydney Morning Herald. It is an edited version of an article first published in The New York Magazine.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/no-sex-please-were-equals-20140217-32umo.html#ixzz2u0QEdkBK

 

So I am asking myself now can married couples be equals? The answer is of course, sure, they can be equals. However in a sexual way they definitely cannot be equals unless they are happy to live more or less in a kind of sibling relationship.

I think the French did get it right a long time ago: Viva la difference!