[Lazamataz]

My son is drop dead attractive. He is 23 and the attention he gets from females is embarrassing for him, and he is no shrinking violet.

I often wished I had this attribute. I'm definitely very average looking, and now that I'm past 50, not even quite average. So I yearned to have that feature, to be incredibly physically attractive.

Then I met Joel.

Joel was literally a male model, who had appeared on the covers of such magazines as GQ and Esquire, as well as numerous fitness magazine.

I told him I envied his appearance and success with women, and he looked sad. He sat me down. He told me that I would never want this curse, if I actually had it.

I was flabbergasted. "What do you mean? You can have any woman you meet! ANY ONE OF THEM!"

He smiled sardonically, and responded, "True, and it is Hell on Earth. You see, because I can, I often do....since I am an addict. And something you don't know is that every woman you sleep with takes a small piece of you away.... and now, I have no ME left. You don't get it, you may never, but this thing you desire is actually something that kills you from the inside."

I changed in that moment. I no longer desired the curse of excessive attractiveness. I no longer wanted the curse of the ability to sleep with absolutely any woman I met.

[thecodont]

He smiled sardonically, and responded, "True, and it is Hell on Earth. You see, because I can, I often do....since I am an addict. And something you don't know is that every woman you sleep with takes a small piece of you away.... and now, I have no ME left. You don't get it, you may never, but this thing you desire is actually something that kills you from the inside."

The Apostle Paul mentioned something like this.

[Chickensoup]

It has definitely been a burden. He tries to use grace.

He tries to make it all into a joke, to leave things well. Sort of “If only...” and smiles and leaves.

One wouldn’t take no, in a bar and he had to ask her to stop touching him and she hauled off and punched him in the nose, and she was removed by the management. Women don’t take no for an answer with any grace.

One woman, at a party, had a bit to drink and decided to Tarzan on him and she ended up sliding through between his legs and crashing into the furniture behind him. He is a target. And men who don’t know him are not thrilled when he shows up and the women get attentive.

I dont recall women being so forward when I was young. But when I listen to young women talk about men, it is like they are talking about meat, or objects.

Funny Women in the sixties and seventies complained about being objectified, and today they make MAD Men look good.