How you know you are getting old
1. Everything hurts, and what doesn't hurt doesn't work.
2. The gleam in your eyes is from the sun hitting your bifocals.
3. You feel like the morning after but you haven't been anywhere.
4. Your children begin to look middle-aged.
5. You've finally reached the top of the ladder, only to find that it's leaning against the wrong wall.
6. Your mind makes contracts that your body can't keep.
7. You look forward to a dull evening.
8. Your favorite part of the newspaper is Twenty Years Ago Today.
9. You turn out the light for economic reasons.
10. You sit in the rocking chair and you can't get it going.
11. Your knees buckle, but your belt won't.
12. You regret all those mistakes you made resisting temptation.
13. You're 17 around the neck. 42 around the waist, and 96 around the golf course.
14. Your pacemaker makes the garage door open when you see a pretty girl.
15. The little old gray-haired lady you help across the street is your wife.
16. You sink your teeth into a steak, and they stay there.
17. You have too much room in the house and not enough room in the medicine cabinet.
18. You know all the answers, but nobody asks you the questions.
19. Your broad mind and your narrow waist have exchanged places.
20. You know your a grown-up because you groan every time you get up!
The difference between a hobbyist and.
What's the difference between a man who has sex with both genders and a heterosexual hobbyist? The former is "bisexual", the latter is "buy sexual"!
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Cartoonist publishes book about "the hobby" titled "Paying For It"
Canadian cartoonist Chester Brown has just published a book called "Paying For It" about his real life experiences as a "hobbyist". Brown says "The romantic love ideal is actually evil. It promotes more misery than happiness and causes many people to yoke themselves for life to the wrong person simply to satisfy society's dictates. My ego is not so fragile that I need someone to tickle me like a stuffed animal and affirm that I'm lovable."
I haven't read the book but it sounds interesting. I agree 100% with the above quote. I personally am not a hobbyist because I already have a girlfriend and want "something extra on the side". Nor have I been married 30 years to a woman who's now post-menopausal and no longer has a sex drive. I'm a hobbyist because no woman has ever considered me worthy of marriage or even a relationship. I could count on one hand the women I've met in the last 20 years who even considered me worthy of a second date (and even those second dates almost never resulted in a third date).
At the age of 42 I realized that "true love" (as depicted in Hollywood romantic comedies) would probably never happen in my lifetime. So I lost my virginity with a provider (at the now defunct Studio 421 in Indianapolis). This provider made the experience sweet and tender and I wouldn't have done it with anyone else. I hate to think how awful it would have been to lose my virginity with one of the greedy, control freak yuppie women who used to answer my personal ad in the 1990's!
Anyway, back to Brown's book. He says the publisher came up with the book's title, which he hates because it implies that he also paid a moral, ethical or religious price for patronizing sex workers. He claims he has no such feelings of regret. Brown is also endorsing legalization of prostitution in Canada and says that the usual reasons for keeping it illegal (drugs, violence, sex slavery) are just a lot of media hype (but then WE already knew that!)
Here's a sample page and a link to a review:
[url]http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/25/books/paying-for-it-is-chester-browns-memoir-of-prostitutes.html?pagewanted=2&_r=3&ref=arts[/url]
