Really should have been posted by a chap...but, well, a chap I am not, and posting it I am!
;D
I never have quite figured out why the sexual urges of men and women
>differ so much. And I never have figured out the whole Venus and Mars
>thing. And I never figured out why men think with their head and women
>think with their heart. And I never yet have figured out how the sexual
>desire gene gets thrown into a state of turmoil when it hears the words
>"I do."
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>One evening last week, my wife and I were getting into bed. Well, the
>passion starts to heat up, and she eventually says, "I don't feel like
>it. I just want you to hold me."
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>I said, "WHAT???"
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>So she says the words that I and every husband on the planet dread. She
>explains that I must not be in tune with her emotional needs as a woman.
>I'm thinking, "What was her first clue?" I finally realize that nothing
>was going to happen that night, so I went to sleep.
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>The very next day, we went shopping at a big, unnamed department store. I
>walked around with her while she tried on three different, very
>expensive outfits. She could not decide which one to take, so I told her
>to take all three of them. She then tells me that she wants matching
>shoes worth $200.00 a pair to which I say OK. And then we go to the
>jewellery department where she gets a pair of diamond earrings.
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>Let me tell you. She was so excited. She must have thought that I was one
>wave short of a shipwreck, but I don't think she cared. I think she was
>testing me when she asked for a tennis bracelet because she does not even
>play tennis. I think I threw her for a loop when I told her that it was
>OK. She was almost sexually excited from all of this, and you should
>have seen her face when she said, "I'm ready to go to the cash
>register."
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>I could hardly contain myself when I blurted out, "No, honey, I don't
>feel like buying all this stuff now." You should have seen her face. It
>went completely blank. I then said, "Really, honey, I just want you to
>HOLD this stuff for a while." And just when she had this look like she
>was going to kill me, I added, "You must not be in tune with my
>financial needs as a man."
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>I figure that I won't be having sex again until some time after the
>spring of 2008.
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