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Especially Prob123 might like to check this out:
http://www.manager-magazin.de/it/artikel/0,2828,576470-3,00.html
Excellent! I love the title!
For the benefit of the non-German speakers among us, we apparently constitute "the Mother of all Tamagotchis"
And Pfundskerl is a truly lovely word to add to my vocabulary (I'll have to teach it to BJ)
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Irina, YMMV = Your Millage May Vary (your experience or opinion may differ from mine).
Yes, bell hooks authored many books including Killing Rage, although I was thinking of All About Love when I posted before. Human emotions are so messy, and take place in context of so many social and personal histories and entanglements. Some critics may call her honesty on such matters hypocrisy and some are frightened that she has rage as well as love. I see it as human. I think it is more reasonable to admit to having emotion and allow for feelings than to marginalize them and tell people they should only have feelings from the approved list. It may be trendy in some circles to tell people you hurt that their feelings are their own problem as you rush off for your next tryst with someone hotter than they are (an attitude I have heard about coming from some people claiming they live by Ethical Slut principles) but it doesn't allow for the fact the human actions affect others and the foreseeable consequence of swinging your fist into someones face is you may break the other person's nose. People who get hurt will feel as they feel, regardless of whether they should feel or not. Though I am no fan of anger, I find a lover who gives me honest rage is more open to connecting and bonding than one who gives me only smooth lines and never lets me in to share his real thoughts.
Or I could just talk to Your Husband and Franky NY and feel the sincerity.
Yes, bell hooks authored many books including Killing Rage, although I was thinking of All About Love when I posted before. Human emotions are so messy, and take place in context of so many social and personal histories and entanglements. Some critics may call her honesty on such matters hypocrisy and some are frightened that she has rage as well as love. I see it as human. I think it is more reasonable to admit to having emotion and allow for feelings than to marginalize them and tell people they should only have feelings from the approved list. It may be trendy in some circles to tell people you hurt that their feelings are their own problem as you rush off for your next tryst with someone hotter than they are (an attitude I have heard about coming from some people claiming they live by Ethical Slut principles) but it doesn't allow for the fact the human actions affect others and the foreseeable consequence of swinging your fist into someones face is you may break the other person's nose. People who get hurt will feel as they feel, regardless of whether they should feel or not. Though I am no fan of anger, I find a lover who gives me honest rage is more open to connecting and bonding than one who gives me only smooth lines and never lets me in to share his real thoughts.
Or I could just talk to Your Husband and Franky NY and feel the sincerity.
http://www.manager-magazin.de/it/artikel/0,2828,576470-3,00.html
Excellent! I love the title!
For the benefit of the non-German speakers among us, we apparently constitute "the Mother of all Tamagotchis"
And Pfundskerl is a truly lovely word to add to my vocabulary (I'll have to teach it to BJ
) 
Prob, I thought the German somehow sounded more dragonish too. Maybe because in my mind German is always very guttural like in old WWII movies.
Would the use of artificial sex pheromones be manipulative/seductive? Supposedly, one can apply a sex pheromone like a perfume, but according to at least one commercial manufacturer,
1. The person who responds to the pheromone is not aware of it; it doesn't have a 'smell'.
2. The receptor (in the nose) for the pheromone signals directly to the limbic system (i.e., produces a very primitive emotional/motivational/instinctive response of attraction, not mediated by rationality, either ethical or prudential.
The one influenced by the pheromone would therefore have no knowledge that this was what was producing the feelings of attraction, unless s/he was informed so by the wearer.
Would it be manipulative/seductive even if the wearer informed the one influenced that s/he was wearing a sex pheromone?
1. The person who responds to the pheromone is not aware of it; it doesn't have a 'smell'.
2. The receptor (in the nose) for the pheromone signals directly to the limbic system (i.e., produces a very primitive emotional/motivational/instinctive response of attraction, not mediated by rationality, either ethical or prudential.
The one influenced by the pheromone would therefore have no knowledge that this was what was producing the feelings of attraction, unless s/he was informed so by the wearer.
Would it be manipulative/seductive even if the wearer informed the one influenced that s/he was wearing a sex pheromone?
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