From: Dickey, Michael F (michael_f_dickey@groton.pfizer.com)
Date: Wed Jul 17 2002 - 14:28:12 MDT
Samantha wrote: - "Eschewing sex, at least for a time, doesn't mean you
worship something else of course. Besides the other arguments, sex
sometiems just loses its allure. You've been there and done that so many
times and in so many variations and rode the various endorphin floods,
orgasmic currents, mammalian pair-bonding, various types of sex-magic and so
on that it simply isn't seen as all that wonderful to replay it again and
again and yet again. There really are a lot of other things to do with the
energy. Sex/romance can be very, very magical. But it can get old or be
less important than other things."
The same can be said of pretty much any endeavour, humans, unfortunately or
fortunately, typically suffer from a pyschological form of the 'diminishing
margin of utility' in economics. That is, the more prevalent, frequent,
common something is, the less we value it. This obviously goes for frequent
sex, owning lots of sports cars, everyone having a supermodel body, etc.
etc. This can typically be correlated with how well we remember things, and
likely the longer / better you remember something the less frequently you
would want to do it. Given indefinate life spans and perfect memories, what
would we all do to keep ourselves from being bored to death?
Personally I want to surround myself and immerse myself in everything that
makes being alive and being human wonderfull, special, and worthwhile. For
this reason I consider myself an extremely passionate person, and though
most of my passions center around acquiring knowledge, I would love to learn
to play every instrument and dance every kind of dance, but most the most
important human emotion of love I would never want to give up, even if it is
'time consuming and requires a lot of effort'
Michael
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