I will burn you just like teenage love/I will eat you just like meat

[pktechgirlbackup]

There's a horrible demonstration idiots do in some abstinence only sex ed classes in which the idiot applies duct tape to a child (usually a girl, because you expect them to touch a boy?), and rips it off. "Ow", the child says quietly to themselves. Then they apply the tape to another girl, and note that it hurts less. After 4 or 5 girls, the tape doesn't stick at all. This is supposed to demonstrate how sex uses you up, and after a few partners you won't be able to bond at all.

Good.

Sex/kissing/romance/being wanted are all drugs. They are incredible rushes that can overcome a lot of intelligence and even wisdom. If you never manage to recreate the oxytocin rush of your first time that is to your benefit. Because what you lose is not the ability to feel that amazing or that deeply, but the burning need to do so with whoever is nearby. You become less like a duckling seeing its mother for the first time and more like an adult who will see the problem in the sentence "Everything in our relationship is perfect except..." before you send the letter in to Captain Awkward.

ETA: more interesting title

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[stolen-tea.livejournal.com]

Preach it! There's no way to combine innocence and wisdom.