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Cougars Rock The Boat, Again!
Will the world ever be ready for the older woman, younger man equation? Carnival Cruise Lines says no, but recently some cougars rocked the boat, making it very clear, they’re not about to be thrown overboard.
There’s this notion among some feminists that the patriarchy uses all its power to suppress knowledge about female sexuality and the full extent of its power. Knowledge of said female power being enough to disturb world order and even the whole universe. (Sort of similar to knowledge that E=mc2, which if memory serves came out of a man, but that’s another story.)
That's Not a Cloud! That's Hot Cougar Steam!
So it wasn’t surprising when I read in TIME, that Carnival Cruise Line decided not to book anymore cougar-themed groups for cruises. It was just too hot to handle.
Sadly details were not forthcoming so we can only imagine, luridly. We know for a fact that last month, a three-day voyage on the Carnival Elation ferried a group of older women (“cougars”) who prefer younger men (“cubs”) between San Diego and Ensenada, Mexico. We also know that will never happen again. At least not on a Carnival Cruise Line ship.
Carnival wouldn’t discuss the new ban, saying it was a “business decision.” They want to market themselves as a more wholesome, “family fun” cruise line. None of this cougars-gone-wild stuff. That apparently offends other passengers, who look on with gut-wrenching horror as a 50-something woman kisses a young Adonis while squeezing his buns.
I mean just how much can society take? Good grief, we still haven’t recovered from the recent “Mrs Robinson” sex scandal. I refer, of course, to the alleged affair between then 59 year old, Iris Robinson, wife of Northern Ireland’s First Minister, and a 19-year-old man, to whom she also gave $80,000 to set up a café.
Can’t a woman just like coffee—a lot?
Personally, I think women like our Mrs Robinson in Ireland and the floating cougars keep the world a fun, interesting place. Haven’t we had enough of the double standard where it’s okay for middle-aged men to chase younger women but middle-aged women don’t get similar latitude?
Miss Cougar America
As the current Miss Cougar America, 42-year-old single mother and Silicon Valley business consultant Gloria Navarro, who was on last month’s cruise, put it, “the day of the gold digger is over and women like me have finally come into their own.” Then she added, “I’d bet that among the wholesome Carnival passenger families, a lot of husbands are 10 or 20 years older than the wives.”
Touché, Miss Cougar America!
The TIME article goes on to report that cougars, being mostly savvy professional women of means, are “not easily thrown overboard.” They have already found other lines that aren’t as squeamish about May-December cruise groups.
I signed up for the one going to Australia. It’s the longest. I may never return.
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When Sleeping With A Frog is Preferable to A Man.
A million little changes, best managed with a strict regimen of denial. That’s my idea of aging and even menopause. Not that I recommend this approach, mind you. It leads to no end of trouble, including throwing out a perfectly good relationship because you’ve lost all sexual interest. You think he’s to blame when, in fact, loss of sex drive is a consequence of menopause. But of course you don’t know that because you’re not really in menopause now are you?
That is exactly what happened to me years ago. Sure, my deep commitment to denial didn’t help. But trust me, I was ignorant, too. I had no idea that for most postmenopausal women, hormone-related changes are the primary factors that interfere with sexual satisfaction.
In fact, I didn’t get confirmation of this until just the other day when I ready Jane Brody’s article, A Dip in the Sex Drive, Tied to Menopause, in the New York Times (March 31, 2009).
She writes about how, “Many postmenopausal women experience diminished or absent sexual desire, difficulty becoming aroused or achieving orgasm, or pain during intercourse caused by menopause-related vaginal changes.” Physical changes with menopause include less blood flow to genital organs, a decrease in vaginal lubrication and a decreased response to touch.
I know, I know. I’d much rather blame a guy too. But that would mean a lot of unnecessary breakups. In a survey of 580 menopausal women conducted by Siecus, the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States, 45 percent reported a decrease in sexual desire after menopause, 37 percent reported no change and 10 percent reported an increase.
What is it about menopause that leads to no-mo’-mojo syndrome? Even though there’s been a lot of buzz about testosterone driving sex drive in women, Brody reports that for most women, the menopausal effects of low levels of estrogen are the primary deterrents to sexual pleasure. Drops in estrogen can bring on hot flashes along with drying and thinning of the vaginal walls and vulva (ouch). Also, decreased blood flow to the genital area means it can take much longer for a woman to feel aroused (and you thought orgasm was slow before?).
I could go on but I’ll close with some advice I wished I’d had. Accept that your body is changing. Then walk into your doc’s office and take charge of your mojo. Demand an overview of options for the changes you don’t like, such as a loss of sex drive. One day you will thank me because studies show that one of the best things you can do for your health and longevity is to keep on screwing.
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Lay it on me, baby.
Have you ever met a guy who was phenomenal in the sack but just a horrible kisser? I mean so disgustingly slobbery that you’d rather suck on a slimy frog? If it were me, the guy wouldn’t make it past a slap on the face let alone get anywhere near my bra strap.
But, says the kissing-science field of philematology (yeah, that’s a new one for me, too), I could be missing the point. Kissologists (okay, I made up the term), or those who study the biochemistry of kisses, say that saliva increases sex drive and even coupling. Men also could be using the saliva transfer to assess a woman’s fertility and estrogen cycle.
Yes, smart people actually study this stuff. The finding was recently (Feb 13) reported at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
“There is evidence that saliva has testosterone in it,” said Rutgers University anthropologist Helen Fisher, and testosterone increases sex drive. “And there is evidence that men like sloppier kisses with more open mouth. That suggests they are unconsciously trying to transfer testosterone to stimulate sex drive in women.”
Using the fine art of osculating to get a girl fornicating–I mean, just how low can a guy get? Apparently they can’t much help themselves. Evolution makes them do it so they can screw it. Still, I hope the male of our species can remember that they’ve advanced a tad beyond primate and there’s a fine line between the kiss that fans the flame and the one that douses it.
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