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Sex and “diminishing people”

I’m sure to have a couple of replies showing that this entry has been completely misunderstood. Oh well…

Many people I know, apparently, believe that sex is something that “reduces” or “lowers” people, that by sleeping with someone you are in some way “diminished”, and that the only way to compensate for that is by having sex be a part of something “greater”, like love or a relationship.

Note: I’m not referring to people who really only have sex as part of a relationship. Read on…

While such people are perfectly capable of having sex with someone because of physical attraction, they feel betrayed and “used” if the sex doesn’t turn into “something more”. It’s almost as if they had sex as a “bet” or as an “investment” - weird idea, I know -, and by having the sex remain “just sex”, it’s as if the bet was lost, as if the investment didn’t work out.

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