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Again, we're proving that we're men by holding tight to the sex issue. . . lol . . . and you think women suffer from sexual hang ups?
This will be easier to explain when we take sex out of the picture for now and first discuss "negotiations". Those who are not familiar with negotiating often fail to prioritize/numeratize/monetize individual negotiable issues and thus have no way to evaluate how important each issue is to them. For example, if 10 negotiable issues are on the table, many people are happy that they receive 8 issues in their favor while compromising 2.
Having said all that, a 100 dollar gift certificate for Gap/Polo seems to be universally 'highly valued' by 20's girls all over the World.
Kasabi, this is well said. I would elaborate and complicate a bit however...
Yes, we inhabit a field of on-going negotiations--not just with girls, but with everyone we encounter--and yes sex along with emotion-work, financial and material considerations, housework and yadditty-yaddity are all in the mix. This is, in fact, "natural" for h. sapiens and apparently for other social anthropoids as well. Watch some videos of bonobos if you doubt it and see the males offering a carefully laden branch of foodstuff in exchange for sex.
But, not only are girls (women, people) different from each other, they are different from themselves. And so are men. Sometimes sex is a high drive, high priority object, sometimes its more of a "take it or leave" it proposition, and occasionally it "I'd rather chew on aluminum than have sex with you,"--though usually you have to be in an intimate relationship with someone for it to reach that point.
What this means is that you not only have to negotiate with each particular woman, you can't assume that what you have negotiated in the past will remain optimal for everyone involved. Speaking particularly of sex, many women vary considerably over the course of their monthly cycle in terms of their sex-drive as well as their drive for emotionally-charged touch.
Finally, though women (like men) do tend to have somewhat stable sexual preferences and styles, people can learn and change. Personally, to the extent I have a "type" of woman I am most attracted to, it's someone who wants to explore, learn, and experience how sex in different modalities affects her and is unafraid to admit she likes the changes.