Three Interesting and related articles about scent

[idesign]

Sorry if

you took that to mean I disagree with what tounge said. I was referring to the mating dance in bars and nightclubs,

which bear little resemblance to relationships. A quick screw in the bathroom or a one nighter with some piece you

picked up in a bar does not count as a relationship. It counts as a mating dance and is just about as rewarding to

me.

A relationship, on the other hand, can be many things and are as diverse as the human mind can make them.

Even if you obey the artificial restrictions placed o relationships by churches and governemnts, there are more ways

to have a relationship than you can list. If you look at some of the mammals you'll find a huge variety of

relationship practices too. The lower ones don't get creative but the hiher ones certainly do.

RBT:

Would

that explain why people grow out of the bar scenes and start looking for more solid

relationships?

Understood Bel, I know you're too smart to make that reduction. But I also know you have

a penchant for too-direct comparisons (reductions) of humans to the lower animal kingdom. Or I misunderstand you,

which would not be a first.

I agree about the word "relationship". In my understanding of the word, it

requires creative thought, which is unique to humans.

Its kind of funny though, every woman I've ever dated

started with some kind of "dance". Verbal, physical and social cues informing both of us as we waded through those

first shallow waters, presumably both of us hoping they'd grow deeper.


Relating to your comment to Rbt's

comment: Ever see an older man or woman who did not grow out of the bar scene? There are perjorative terms for

them.

[belgareth]

The obvious question is how

direct a comparison is too direct? Personally I belive that we are little more than animale with a VERY thin layer

of civilization overlaying it. Evidence is plain when you look at how quickly people revert to animalistic ways in

almost any high pressure circumstance. In making the assumption that we are still more animal than civilzed I have

never been disapointed in predicting behavoir.

[idesign]

I'd LOVE to hear from Doc on

this, but I believe our emotional and psychological development has lagged behind our purely cerebral development.

We can go to the moon (not the chimps) but our divorce rate is over 50%. I really don't want to get into

that line of thought.

Our shortfall is behavioral, as you say, and that's no reason to

automatically draw so short a line to the apes. We're capable of seemingly super-human heights of behavior.

[fantasylove]

Oh, thanks for inputing.

They are so interesting but a little long.