Day at home

[jay]

Strep hasn't knocked me down -- no fever or other symptoms -- but I felt not-right this morning, enough that I stayed home from work to try to pre-empt the bug. A telecon including hopeforyou (who was also offsite at her place) went well. Later, bad news about the air traffic project I presented in DC last week... the local NASA management group that has been putting together a new program for FY05, and using us as its poster-child for marketing purposes, is now going to reduce our part of the budget to ten percent of the total while warping our purpose into being basically just computing infrastructure support for things in which they're more interested.

Otherwise, I fixed a door closer and a balky lock, rested, and took Kevin to the park and tried to throw toy boomerangs with him. We were laughable. That's perfectly OK. ;-)

This evening, I talked with patgreene, including a lively discussion regarding whether women actually ever wanted sex for its own sake, or just went along with it in order to gain things that they valued more (like cuddling, or attention, or building emotional ties). There was no verdict... maybe more in a future post.

Comments

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

polyamory doesn't include getting a third person in

(smile) my reference was to watching someone reacting to someone else... trying to keep myself out of the frame of reference.

Although I suppose that one could try interesting things with three people in that context, come to think of it :-).

primarily manifested in response

Yes, that's good. Mostly in response to outside suggestion/seduction/pressure/etc.

I am not alone up there

I respect that there are women, like yourself, at that end of the scale. But I'd argue that you're the exception proving the rule... really, I've seen (in person) almost no women showing a voracious appetite, or at least not in the same outwardly-observable, watch-out sense that marks a man with the same appetite.

I would soon lose interest in my partner
But does the converse hold true? If you're interested in your partner and communicating well, are you necessarily going to be sexually interested as well?

I do get to dictate exactly what kind of sex I want

I started to write, "at least then your partner won't feel obliged to thank you" but caught myself ;-).

[wordweaverlynn.livejournal.com]

But does the converse hold true? If you're interested in your partner and communicating well, are you necessarily going to be sexually interested as well?

Oh my yes.