"According to certain scientists, whenever a woman has sex, her body produces a chemical which causes her to emotionally attach. This chemical may also account for the series of terrifying questions that involuntarily pop into our minds even after just one casual tryst. Questions like: “does he like me?” “will he call again?” and the classic, “where is this all going?” When it comes to men, even when we try to keep it light, how do we wind up in the dark?"
A poignant question from my favorite fictional columnist. That said, Paris was lovely, but there's no fighting biology.
In response to my post on Sex and Sex Too Soon, another woman of words commented: "Turns out that humans don't value things that come too easily. Money, love, sex, new shoes; they all fall into the same abyss. Easy come IS easy go."
Is it too much to ask that humans could grow up a bit and get over the egos and the chemicals? Can we possibly learn to overlook the chase, or in some cases, the impulse to attach, and just start falling in love?
In other more travel related news my weekend in Paris, due to some embarrassing un-savyness when it comes to trains and train stations, ended with a day long tour of the Bourgogne region of France instead of the 1 1/2 hour it should have taken me to get back to Dijon. I even had a whole hour to myself to wander around the lesser known village of Laroche-Migennes; plenty of time to become pleasantly acquainted with all three of the town's inhabitants: a duck, and two old men fishing.
I've been avidly reading about these dreadfully powerful sex chemicals lately. It hasn't helped. I still want to be swept of my feet by the guy I just gave in too easy to... and he still hasn't called. What's your secret?
ReplyDeleteObviously it isn't an issue when the sex isn't that great. But when it is... biology still reigns supreme, and my poor brain gets lost in the stampede of feminine hormone cocktails. Furthermore, what in the world is the easiest way to let go? I'm sure you have some tips, you minx.