Falsify candour,
Coyly mimic decency,
Bandy brandished smiles,
Beware the libidinous,
Expedience fells honour.
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Tanka: 5 lines.
Syllabic restrictions: 5-7-5-7-7.
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Sage advice in haiku; it ain't necessarily so in tanka.
"Beware the libidinous", a bit difficult for my tongue. Where would we all be without sex? I think the libertine is who one should beware of, but they are usually so enticing. I get the over all feeling of being lectured to. As an answer:
Upright
Truth is a weapon.
Let intent bow to action.
May smiles overcome glares.
Embrace sincere indulgence,
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The comment was more a social one than a physical one (sex is advantageous to the gene, but not necessarily always the organism - who says that 'us being' is advantageous to 'us'?), and if we come back to our earlier discussion about the fickle nature of human sexuality we see how 'beware the libidinous' can, on occasion, ring true for either sex. If somebody displays libidinous behaviour in an immediate or forthright way, chances are you're the latest in a long list of people they've approached. Libertine has only three syllables
I don't believe censure is the way to go. You don't need to burn books to destroy a culture, just get people to stop reading them.
You probably feel lectured because of the unabashed contempt I feel for the target of this piece. -
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You are teaching things about the present generation I was unaware of.
I see I have some research to do before I can assertain the accuracy of your statements. I sympathize with your attitude, I formed much the same one after my husband, of as many years as you have lived, dumped me in a rather cruel way. After 12 years, I am in some ways still a recovering ex. I know how excruciating the experience can be. But I know now that ALL men don't think with their dicks. Take yourself for instance. Mabe the next time you tip your heart to a girl you should look for her in a place where people that share your ideals might be. Church, doing charity work, ect. Take your time and invistigate her other relationships first. I have learned that until you are able to look within and see the part you played in your situation you will repeat it. Espically if you are choosing someone that will hurt you in the end. I've written a hommage to Emily Dickinson poem on this topic. I shall dedicate to you. As I would say to my grandchildern of your approximate age, "learn from my mistakes and have a better time of it, doing something other". Cheers, April -
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I don't think there have been any real studies on this kind of thing, not any conducted by anyone young enough to really find out. Admittedly my later adolescence was atypical (extreme to some), but even during the earlier years it was always the girls who hopped in and out of relationships (to be fair, out-and-out promiscuity was roughly as frequent in either gender - I'm speaking more specifically about fidelity); I have consoled many more heartbroken boys than girls.
It has recently occurred to me that clubs are a bad place to find potential partners. I don't know how well I'd do at a church, mind you. Atheism doesn't fly in there.
It's not that men think with their dicks, or women with their bits, it's that genes code dicks (or bits) to do something. What the man (or woman) is thinking is usually irrelevant. People can be guilt-ridden the entire time they're in the act - the entire time they're thinking about it beforehand. They know it's wrong, they might even be telling themselves to stop. It doesn't matter, because their body is obeying a genetic instruction which says something like 'suitable mate. copulate'. It is possible to disobey your genes (as a woman who chooses not to have as many children as she can), but not all genes (like the one for eye colour) are disobeyable, and not all disobeyable genes relinquish control without a fight. All it takes is for their genes which say 'fidelity' to be outweighed by their genes which say 'copulate', and they will be more likely to cheat. Unaided, they will almost certainly cheat. It could be said that I probably have 'monogamous genes'.
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