Nobody ever did it better than Dottie.
General Report On The Sex Situation
Woman wants monogamy;
Man delights in novelty.
Love is woman's moon and sun;
Man has other forms of fun.
Woman lives but in her lord;
Count to ten, and man is bored.
With this the gist and sum of it,
What earthly good can come of it?
Dorothy Parker (1893-1967)
As with so much of her stuff, though, I find myself in disagreement. Perhaps I am a freakish example of my gender, but I do seem to have a very powerful monogamy gene. I've remained in love with the same woman for years, even after the relationship had ended. And I find it just about impossible - almost literally unthinkable - to get interested in someone else while I'm in love. I'm strictly a one-at-a-time kind of chap. Anything else would be too exhausting, wouldn't it?
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