“We’ll get to that in a bit,†I told her, “as your sideburned porcine pal gollygee looks like he’s getting all drooly and excited, and I don’t want him to be disappointed…..yet.
“I need something explained to me first.â€
We walked from the living room over into the dining room—the rooms being separated by a ceiling-high archway—and sat down at the table, on which sits stacks of my freshly-laundered clothes.
There’s a woman who picks up the dirty laundry here every Tuesday, and brings it back the next Thursday, all cleaned and folded. I’m supposed to put it all away in the closets, but finding it more convenient to keep the clothes where she sets them, I leave them there.
“This is something I’ve never understood,†I told her; “it was the hippies and primitives, way back when I was a little lad, who incited the sexual revolution, convincing us there were no more rules, no more standards, no limits, to one’s sexual conduct.
“’Everything goes,’ we were told; ‘do what you want to do,’ ‘if it feels good, do it, ‘let it all hang out.’
“Monogamy, abstinence or reticence, ‘waiting until one’s ready,’ were repressions that could lead to all sorts of hang-ups and other undesirable personality traits and habits. Just best to be unrestrained and loose.
“Okay then, so we had this sexual revolution which, having started when I was still a young lad, was all but over by the time I was an adult. Everything had changed; and if it wasn’t anything quite legal now, it was at least socially acceptable.
“It’d been my experience—until very recently—that Democrats, liberals, and primitives, seemed the loosest, the least inhibited in their sexual habits, but then and again, they’d invented the sexual revolution, while the rest of us had been less enthusiastic about it.
“When Skins’s island first floated to the surface in January 2001 my salacious interests were inspired; surely the primitives were going to dwell a great deal upon sex, titillating its public audience.
“Think of it; a sex forum on Skins’s island would beat the cooking and baking forum there, in traffic.
“But that never happened; in fact, it seems as if having invented the sexual revolution, the primitives are now afraid to talk about it. Apparently the subject’s banned on Skins’s island, and it’s an easily-enforced ban because most primitives naturally and instinctively shy away from it.
“Thus depriving the world of a great deal of fascinating illumination. We’d all like to know, for example, the best lines MrsCorpio’s used when trying to pick up blonde white girls, or how In_The_Wind handled the rougher elements when she was bedding three or four guys a day 1965-1985, or how much graywarrior got from the guys those times she was paid at all, or how my fellow alum Skins finds bed with a women’s-libber wife.
“Why are primitives so afraid to talk about something they themselves brought to the cultural forefront in the first place; mention ‘sex’ to one of them, and it’s like splattering Holy Water on a vampire.
“Isn’t it odd, that there’s more, and more freewheeling casual discussion of sex on conservative message boards, among we stuffy, uptight, straitlaced, religious, and inhibited haemorrhoidal old fogies?
“I think what it is, is that the hippies and primitives found out sex isn’t all they thought it’d be, it’s not as good as they supposed it’d be, and that it scares them. And of course being of their maladjusted natures, they can’t even enjoy it, have fun with it.â€
to be continued