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Americans are afraid to die, sure, but there's something we're much more afraid of which explains all of this so much better. We're afraid of old people fuckin
by fusiongyro 14y ago
Americans are afraid to die, sure, but there's something we're much more afraid of which explains all of this so much better.
We're afraid of old people fucking.
We're afraid to know our parents had sex. We're afraid for our kids to know we have sex. We're afraid of what happens when we get old and wrinkly. We're afraid that when we're old and wrinkly, nobody taut and sexy will want to have sex with us. We're secretly afraid when we're old and wrinkly we won't be able to get it up. And, of course, we're terrified that our widowed grandparents might be having sex with other widowed grandparents.
I think the whole youth and beauty thing falls out of this.
- delinquentme 14y agocoping mechanism to accept death.
- marquis 14y ago>I think the whole youth and beauty thing falls out of this. Yes, you're right but that is more of a side-effect of why we value youth and beauty: our primary drive for sex is to reproduce, and there is a nice bell-curve on the age of a person as to when that is optimal, made clearly obvious by their outward appearance of youth and beauty. Plenty of older people have sex, and I've heard anecdotally that retirement homes are a good place for finding a partner.
- fusiongyro 14y ago> our primary drive for sex is to reproduce Clearly you and I are not watching the same pornography. > Plenty of older people have sex Sure. I'm just positing that the retirement home phenomenon is exacerbated by our cultural fear of finding out about this.