Turtle
14-07-2002, 02:21 PM
Originally written by Nick Hornby in High Fidelity
Read any woman's magazine and you'll see the same complaint over and over again: men - those little boys ten or twenty or thirty years on - are hopeless in bed. They are not interested in "foreplay"; they have no desire to stimulate the erogenous zones of the opposite sexl they are selfish, greedy, clumsy, unsophisticated. These complains, you can't help feeling, are kind of ironic. Back then [our teens], all we wanted was foreplay, and the girls weren't interested. They didn't want to be touched, caressed, stimulated, aroused; in fact, they used to thump us if we tried. It's not really very surprising, then, that we're not much good at all that. We spent two or three long and extremely formative years being told very forcibly not to even think about it. Between the ages of fourteen and twenty four, foreplays from being something that boys want to do and girls don't, to something that women want and men can't be bothered with. The perfect match, if you ask me, is between a Cosmo woman and a fourteen year old boy.
Funny, yes. But true? False? It's just one man's interpretation of childhood, but it poses some interesting questions.
Read any woman's magazine and you'll see the same complaint over and over again: men - those little boys ten or twenty or thirty years on - are hopeless in bed. They are not interested in "foreplay"; they have no desire to stimulate the erogenous zones of the opposite sexl they are selfish, greedy, clumsy, unsophisticated. These complains, you can't help feeling, are kind of ironic. Back then [our teens], all we wanted was foreplay, and the girls weren't interested. They didn't want to be touched, caressed, stimulated, aroused; in fact, they used to thump us if we tried. It's not really very surprising, then, that we're not much good at all that. We spent two or three long and extremely formative years being told very forcibly not to even think about it. Between the ages of fourteen and twenty four, foreplays from being something that boys want to do and girls don't, to something that women want and men can't be bothered with. The perfect match, if you ask me, is between a Cosmo woman and a fourteen year old boy.
Funny, yes. But true? False? It's just one man's interpretation of childhood, but it poses some interesting questions.