Um, no, that was not what I said. What I said is "Now, if you happen to have done some INDEPENDENT thinking and come to whatever conclusions about sexual matters that are right for YOU (sans the social acceptance factor) - then more power to you and bravo for not being a sheep! Whatever you have decided is awesome! Just fuckin’ give me the same right to have my own set of morals to live by without your coming to the conclusion that I must be “damaged” in order to be able to think freely and therefore my set of morals is inferior to yours! Just because we may differ does not make one of us “right” and the other “wrong”. I bolded it for you so it would be easier to understand.
I don’t give a rat’s ass if someone does or does not involve themselves in something other than strict monogamy. I have issues with people being sheep and doing things to placate others when, if left to their own devices, they’d do something else entirely. Yes, those are MY issues. They don’t have to be anyone else’s issues. A lot of folks on this forum have a very similar issue with people being sheep when it comes to diet and exercise and there are a great many theads on this matter…but they don’t see that most of them are actually sheep just the same when it comes to the “socially acceptable” things in life. How many men stand up to the women in their life and say “Before we even start to date, let me tell you that I love pussy. I may fall in love with you and want to marry you and all that happy horseshit but I will always love and want pussy. Accept that or reject it; that’s how I am.” If a man feels this way - the only “T-man” thing to do is to speak it and live it.
Regarding if a real T-man should respect his wife - absolutely! Respect the hell out of her. Hopefully she deserves it. But don’t castrate yourself in the process of respecting a female (or a male for that matter). That’s all. Be true to who you REALLY are. There are too many facets in life where we have to temper our true selves (to hold gainful employment comes to mind) to ALSO have to temper our true selves within our private relationships.
To answer your question about my personal life…when I started seeing my honey, we were both of the same mind - no games and open communication regardless of the other’s feelings. This is not something we did to be “harsh” with eachother, but is a tool to be used so that no one can complain that something was said or done to placate/keep the peace/mollify/impress the other. A result of this is that we have a fucking awesome relationship where both of us are the insanely satisfied in every way, shape and form; more than we’ve ever been or ever hope to be (no relationship is perfect but this is as close -as I think is humanly possible for the two of us). We have something of an open relationship. We both recognize the fact of human attraction not being confined solely to marital partners and the fatal flaw of patriarchal, Judeo-Christian societies in regards to the strictures placed on marriage. We have discussed and come to a mutually agreable conclusion on who, how, when and under what circumstances strict monogamy is to be applied, or not applied (as the case may be). What we do works for us and is the result of both of us being absolutely true to ourselves, open with eachother, and respectful of eachother - which is the only way a marraige can be anything but a failure in my humble opinion.
JRC: Sorry to jump your ass, man. Joking is a wonderful thing but is sometimes hard to tell from bigotry when seen only in text format. Perhaps a smiley face at the end of a sentence would help allay future misconstruals.