Cracker: Get it Off
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are you older than me?
Yep, I've made it out of my teens now...
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I thought you were both in Wellington & diff age groups don't always exclude friends.
Point taken there may well be a number of educated and prosperous ex-sex workers out there.
Just because we can't see the impact of someones past doesn't mean it hasn't made an impact. (Drawing my long bow again) I note that Georgina Byers doesn't seem to have had a partner while in office. -
i don't think i said that? don't think anyone else did either but am too lazy to go back and check.
My apologies if you thought I was directing that comment at you Anjum, I wasn't. It was a general comment, part of my long stream-of-conscious, and probably directed at myself more than anyone. I do believe tho', that the gist of this thread agrees with the idea that sex workers by and large are exploited. And just because it's a generalisation (that sex workers are exploited) doesn't mean it isn't true. But as Andrew and Joanna have pointed out, there are exceptions.
The one silver lining in my time working with Rainton Haistie was meeting the proverbial stripper with a heart of gold. She really was a sweetheart, I was quite fond of her, and she turned out fine. -
I thought you were both in Wellington & diff age groups don't always exclude friends.
That's true, but it'll be a fantastic coincidence if they were the same person, even though this IS Wellington & we've all probably slept with both of them without knowing. :)
And I think Jo was talking of another city anyway.
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I would also like to know what makes people fall in love, and then excise it with a scalpel and preserve it in jar filled with formalin
That is one great metaphor.
Metaphor? I saw it more in a Jack-the-Ripper kind of way - in line with the 19th century romanticism... But that'd be my 21st century steampunk/splatterpunk romaticism shining thru.
No, I mean I was being kind of flippant, but I mean it literally, like the famous neurobiologist Vilayanur Ramachandran means it, in his terrific book The Emerging Mind . Ramachandran talks about how "Many social scientists feel deflated when informed that beauty, charity, piety and love are all the result of the activity of neurons in the brain, but their disappointment is based on the false assumption that to explain a complex phenomenon in terms of its component parts is to explain it away".
He goes on to explain that activity in someone's hypothalamaic nuclei causes certain peptides to be released along with the affiliation hormone prolactin, and that as this is the biochemical pathway that makes us feel love. He argues that rather than deflate the notion of love, this confirms that love is real.
This is precisely the set of chemicals that are not being activiated during an emotionally uninvested sex act. And this mapping of the biochemistry and neurobiology of love is very romantic, in a Victorian kind of way.
And as for 19th century romantic novels, well, as Ramachandran also points out, while we may think of the Victorian age as backwards, neurotic and synonymous with repression, it was actually a time of great interest and advancements in science, medicine, natural history etc.
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