(January 5, 2015 at 5:18 pm)alpha male Wrote:

(January 5, 2015 at 5:13 pm)rexbeccarox Wrote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_addiction

Boy, that was tough.

Then the answer is no.

Then why did you compare them to addicts?

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Quote:Whatever they want their reasons to be. Who are you to tell them otherwise?

What are the reasons?

None of your business.

(January 5, 2015 at 5:30 pm)alpha male Wrote:

(January 5, 2015 at 5:20 pm)FatAndFaithless Wrote: According to your definition of a romantic relationship.

According to most people's definition.

Face it, most people think that getting married means giving up outside emotional and/or physical romances.

So what? What does what "most people think" have to do with what two individuals (or more than two individuals) find attractive and romantic between each other?

(January 5, 2015 at 5:36 pm)rexbeccarox Wrote: Then why did you compare them to addicts?

Those aren't necessarily addicts. There are people who are overweight who are not food addicts, and people who do things they shouldn't after drinking who aren't alcoholics.

Quote:None of your business.

So you don't have any.

Probably not even accidentally relevant, given how pathologically single I am, but I visited a titty bar in Blackpool last year after being slung out of a pub (long story). Anyway, I forget how much it cost me but one nice lady in there started doing her thang, a private show sort of thing. It was nice, the first hint of intimacy I'd had in like forever, but it felt artificial and I asked her to stop. We had a nice little chat over a drink afterwards.

(January 5, 2015 at 5:18 pm)alpha male Wrote:

(January 5, 2015 at 5:13 pm)rexbeccarox Wrote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_addiction

Boy, that was tough.

Then the answer is no.

Quote:Whatever they want their reasons to be. Who are you to tell them otherwise?

What are the reasons?

Enjoying multiple flavors? Finding pleasure in seeing their significant other enjoying themselves at the hands of another (fetishization of the happiness of the other; I find that more romantic than getting jealous over them enjoying the company of another, actually...)? There are plenty.

(January 5, 2015 at 5:37 pm)FatAndFaithless Wrote: So what?

So in a general discussion of human behavior, definitions used by most people are applicable.

Quote:What does what "most people think" have to do with what two individuals (or more than two individuals) find attractive and romantic between each other?

Maybe Mrs. R does find it attractive and romantic when Rhythm comes home from the strip club smelling of booze and other women's perfume...but I don't think that most women find that attractive and romantic. I doubt that Mrs. R does either.

(January 5, 2015 at 5:42 pm)alpha male Wrote:

(January 5, 2015 at 5:36 pm)rexbeccarox Wrote: Then why did you compare them to addicts?

Those aren't necessarily addicts. There are people who are overweight who are not food addicts, and people who do things they shouldn't after drinking who aren't alcoholics.

Oh please.

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Quote:None of your business.

So you don't have any.

I don't need any. It's none of my fucking business what other people do anymore than it's yours.

(January 5, 2015 at 5:48 pm)alpha male Wrote: Maybe Mrs. R does find it attractive and romantic when Rhythm comes home from the strip club smelling of booze and other women's perfume...but I don't think that most women find that attractive and romantic. I doubt that Mrs. R does either.

Well how about we leave that up to Mrs. R and Rhythm, instead of you making bald, snide implications about the quality of their relationship, you insufferable cunt?

(January 5, 2015 at 5:44 pm)Stimbo Wrote: Probably not even accidentally relevant, given how pathologically single I am, but I visited a titty bar in Blackpool last year after being slung out of a pub (long story). Anyway, I forget how much it cost me but one nice lady in there started doing her thang, a private show sort of thing. It was nice, the first hint of intimacy I'd had in like forever, but it felt artificial and I asked her to stop. We had a nice little chat over a drink afterwards.

You too?!

Oh fuck, thank the (blank) I'm not the only one.

What's that, some might ask? "Elegy? You don't like strip clubs?!"

I do not. I can see the appeal, definitely. But do I get turned on by it? Surprisingly not. As you said; it feels too artificial, because I KNOW it's artificial. I'm paying for it. I accomplished nothing of my own, nothing of my personality or appearance or anything other than spending my money. Worse, a lot of the time, they're all strung out on meth or crack, so then I get the guilt trip over probably enabling those habits. How can I tell they're strung out? The teeth. That's all it takes. Or, if it's Evil, the track marks.

Plus the, uh... The company of the crowd is rarely ever pleasant. Seriously, sandpaper wouldn't be enough to dry the drool on the tongues of a lot of the guys. And the guys themselves clearly aren't gonna get to see a naked girl without paying for it or seeing it on a computer or TV screen, either... Which, well, I guess that's the point.

I find strip clubs dull as hell and about as stimulating as a toothpaste commercial. Then again, I worked in a brothel for four years, so stepping into a strip club to pay to have some gal shake her tits at me is a bit like drinking a Miller Lite after being weaned on stout. It's a waste of time, IMO, but to each his/her own. I sure don't care what some moral busybody thinks about it.