Last night I was hanging around with a friend, having a beer. The talk, as it sometimes does, got around to sex. He is always regaling me with his adventures in relationship land. Rarely do his relationships get off the ground, but he has a fun time meeting the women.
Sometimes he says he has fucked most of them, and sometimes he says he can’t get it up. I have no idea what to believe about him. He does have the gift of gab, for sure, but his life makes a shipwreck look like a fender bender. He’s glib, acerbic, intolerant of anyone who isn’t as quick as he is (and there aren’t many), misogynistic and an accused wife beater who spent a week in jail due to his wife’s believableness.
He’s crazy, just like me, so we get along well. His verbal jousting doesn’t bother me. Besides it’s not all that hard to put him in his place. For a smart guy, who has, literally, been walking the streets for years, there’s an inner innocence about him that is surprising.
How is this related to the topic? Well, last night, between watching the Phillies and ordering burgers, I was telling him about my adventures in the area rectal fornication. This somehow lead to a discussion of threesomes at which point he began asking me about what it was like. He was having a hard time, apparently, wrapping his mind around these things.
At some point I told him that he could see these things for himself online. He seemed interested and asked a number of questions about where he could find such media, and then (we finally get to the task at hand) he asked the stumper, “Could I get addicted to this?”
He’s bipolar and like many people with bipolar disorder, he has had a number of addictions in his life. He’s managed to kick them all, which is amazing to me. I told him that, yes, it was very easy to get addicted to porn, amongst other things one does online.
His response? “Then I better not do it.”
I was blown away. Here was an admission of utter naivete from a guy who hides just about everything behind his shield of words. So, based on that, my dear @tuesday242 (and every other doubting woman here), I have to conclude that there are men who don’t look at porn.