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Ezra Klein wrote, "men need to feel a cold spike of fear when they begin a sexual encounter." As a person who spent years with the kind of anxiety problems tha
by forgottenpass 11y ago
Ezra Klein wrote, "men need to feel a cold spike of fear when they begin a sexual encounter."
As a person who spent years with the kind of anxiety problems that gave me a spike of fear doing mundane everyday actions, I can assure you this is a healthy reaction to sexual encounters.
- crpatino 11y agoWould you care to elaborate? I don't see why you would want to inflict unjustified fear spikes on half of the population. Unless, you know, you are a class-A jerk and happen to belong to the other half of the population.
- forgottenpass 11y agoI was being sarcastic. I don't wish it on anyone, as it is not a healthy reaction to normal situations. I'd reserve the 'right' time for that reaction to things on the order of "I'm going skydiving and it's time to jump." What Klein probably means to describe is a brief bit of fleeting trepidation that can be waved off with a few seconds of thought, but that wouldn't show off his political bonafids.
- crpatino 11y agoI see, sorry... sarcasm does not carry well in text. Sorry to hear you went through this on a regular basis. I know what you mean by the fleeting trepidation thing. Won't go into details, but I had a quite unnerving experience some weeks ago. Not pretty.