For fear of breaking the AUP, I won't link the url, but it is under
Got me thinking about how "single-visioned" some people can be.
If it doesn't fit in their version of the world then it must be wrong!
Well I'm sorry but I will stick to being a swinger and have all the fun!!
Jeni
Jeni, unfortuantly you just don't get it do you? On that forum you plucked out of cyberspace the posters were expressing a whole spectrum of views, i.e. not "single-visioned".
But you have deemed them "single-visioned", therefore it is you who is "single-visioned", not they.
Well most members on here don’t view the vanilla world highly, Is there a difference? What you might hate, I might love, isn’t that part of life? It’s when we start picking at each other’s beliefs that problems then occur; Take it with a pinch of salt.
hello mt north! not seen you for ages, but not sure if its cos i have not been here or you have not! xxx
For me, Non-Swingers or Vanilla's (what ever you want to call them)won't ever be willing to accept another lifestyle unless you just give them the facts and let them make their own minds up. To try to badger them into accepting the Swinging lifestyle through any other means just won't work. (and I'm not saying that anyone here is trying to do such a thing - I'm just saying that some people do....)
i was sitting in work a few months back when i over heard a conversation about swinging... and it was the typical Stereo type of, keys in the center of the room bollocks... i was dying to pluck up the corrage and tell them a few facts about the world of swinging.. but i though i best not... for a start i don't think any one at work would belive the other side of me. i'm too "sweet and innocent" to know of such things! :twisted:
It is always the "sweet and innocent" ones you know!
Suppose a woman successfully has sex with a series of men or women in the conventional singles/dating world. She carefully selects them so that the encounters are completely discreet, and her partners don't hit on her and there's a mutual parting. All nice and neat, no hearts broken etc.
If a single woman joins the swinging world, and proceeds to have a series of partners, she's likely to be hailed as a great success, as she has fulfilled her desires and the conventions of the lifestyle.
Now we often say there's a special mentality to becoming a swinger but how much of this is selective as and when needed?
Most of us have to equate our values from our own upbringing which is predominantly well behaved heterosexuality, designed for monogamous partnering etc. We don't get brought up to be swingers.
So where does all the language we use to explain swinging come from? Most of it becomes confused with conventional ideas and the language that has developed around them. Which makes it confusing at times to explain, and also for conventional ears to accept.
Which is why most people in the vanilla world stick to their misconceptions. They really can't be bothered to fathom it all out, particularly if they have not awakened any interest in the alternatives in life.
A man comes back from the dead. A freind asks him 'What is it like to be dead' He replies we can not talk about that, we have no mutual experience to base the conversation on. His freind says you mean I have to die to talk about it.
So I have seen Star Trek, condemn me.
I dont get it?
A man comes back from australia. A friend asks him "what it was like to be in Australia". He replies, we cannot talk about that as we have no mutual experience to base the conversation on. His friend says "you mean i need to go to Australia to talk about it".
His friend replies " yeah, you must go to Australia before we talk about it"
To which he replies "Stop being a tosser and tell me how it was, i quite clearly do not need a mutual experience to be able to listen to how it was"
to which his friend replies " sorry, i heard something like that on star trek once and it sounded quite mysterious and wonderful. Thought i would emulate my heroes by using it myself, even though its pure gash, live long and prosper"
In a world where we are condition to feel anger when our partner has sex with another person, can we understand the conflicting 'joy' when we see our partner having sex? Can we understand it until we feel it?
Australia: is big, full of red sand, steaming jungle and the like. All of which we can all understand. We have a shared language to describe those things.
Australia: is big, full of red sand, steaming jungle and the like. All of which we can all understand. We have a shared language to describe those things.
Hmm, thats what australia looks like, the friends question was "what was it like to be in australia?"
And if the problem was that there was not a common vocabulary to describe the feelings when he was dead, then would it not be easier just to say that to the person?