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Bad Nudes Bared
Yesterday, I looked in the backpack of my live-in boyfriend of two years and
found two pictures of women which I'd describe as pornographic. I was really
upset and angry because his pictures weren't of me. Also, they were pretty
unattractive women, so why would he want to look at them? I confronted him
and told him it was over. He wanted to know why I searched his bag in the
first place, and complained that I didn't know where the pictures came from,
etc. He then returned my key and left. Now, I went through his backpack out
of pure curiosity; I trust him completely and I still don't think he's
cheated on me. But, now I think maybe he lusts after someone else or has a
thing for pornography. I just don't know. Did curiosity kill this
relationship? --Over And Out
THERE'S A special kind of man who never looks at another woman: One who walks
down the street tapping a long white cane with a red tip on the end.
Men like to look. They've always liked to look. Centuries ago, some cave
chick found rock slabs with some other cave chick's pictures on them in her
cave dude's loincloth drawer, pitched a hissy fit, and threw him out.
Prehistoric life being what it was, she was probably quick to relent, since
he was the one bringing home the bison that prevented her hairy little
children from starving to death.
Much has changed since then: Women now bring home the bison, and generally
have a few weeks' supply of it in their Sub-Zero refrigerators. Beyond that,
everything's pretty much the same: Men still like to look...and in volume
whenever possible.
Don't blame them. Biology makes them do it. Back in cave days, kids died off
long before pricey graduate schools came into the picture. For a man, being a
cave-stud was a fun, low-cost way to see that his genes got to swim in the
gene pool of the future. The genes selected for survival weren't those of the
one-woman man who stayed down in the cave watching reruns of "Little House On
The Prairie," but those of the knuckle-dragging sex machines who convinced a
wide range of cave girls to rock the prehistoric station wagon out behind the
prehistoric disco.
These sex-machine genes wire modern men to be on the lookout for
boff-abilities at every turn. When a woman's present -- just about any woman
-- the guy present is likely to be imagining what it would be like to bend
her over the piano. Still, we can overcome our biology. Men do it by not
having sex with everything in sight. (Well, most men.) Just because the
thought flits across your man's mind doesn't mean that he acts on it or that
he loves you any less. It simply means that he's a man.
Accordingly, it's unlikely that he was cheating on you with a bunch of haggy
porn stars. So who were those ugly naked chicks? If you hadn't behaved like
such a nut-bag, you might know. For the future, you'd best get it into your
big inquiring head that being in a relationship with someone doesn't allow
you to strip them of all privacy. Also, when you jump to conclusions, you're
bound to break something. Do get some help so you don't repeat offend. And,
last but not least...do let us know if he comes back to you so we can pray
for him.
Copyright ©2001, Amy Alkon, from her syndicated column, Ask The Advice Goddess, which appears in 60 papers across the U.S. and Canada. All rights reserved.
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