@maija@nerthos Honestly even though I'm not entirely serious when I say all women are pedophiles, I'm not completely joking either. It comes up with an uncomfortable amount of them.
@maija@nerthos Sex without romance is boring and you might as well just goon. The only time I've been interested in experimenting with casual sex was with a girlfriend (picking up a third girl) and even that I didn't like. The reality isn't fun, it's just awkward.
@maija@nerthos I'm also not that fetishistic even though I have a high sex drive. I have a few weird things I like but I'm not into weird sex culture. I usually have to act crazier than I am to keep women happy because they want me to be more explicitly violent than I naturally am.
@maija@nerthos I don't care about role play stuff. Most girls I wind up with want to age play like they're younger, which is probably bc I have a type. I go for very small women. My tallest was 5'4" but I rarely go above 5'1" or above 110 lbs.
The size difference is cute but I don't get off on it the way they seem to.
@hidden The copy I have RN is Cleary's (part of his 4 volume set) Idk if he's good bc I never got into his Buddhist translations either and I don't know any Chinese. He seems to be one of the main guys who translated classic Chinese philosophy tho so I'd like to think he's competent.
@hidden In the Books of Genesis, Enoch, and Jubilees, you have a very similar primitivist idea. Humanity begins with a lifespan of a thousand years, but the more artificial they become, the shorter their lives become.
What shortens your life, causes dissatisfaction, and further depart you from Eden are things like tools, make-up, towns, and magical rituals.
The solution in this tradition isn't to abstain from these things, though. It's the perfection of them. The first town is founded by murder, the first kingdom is founded by war, but the way to perfect this, in the Abrahamics, isn't to put the genie in the bottle, it's to perfect the structure. One would expect in the Christian eschaton, there would be factories, computers, and art, but without the poisonous elements of those things (some medievals more or less abandon the idea of physical Resurrection but that's not faithful to what came before)