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Reiss’s Pieces
I had planned to write something all sweet and flowery but I just can’t do it! This July, I will be 70 years-old. But being this old gives me a certain amount of license on what I think and what I write. At least I think so.
When I was young and of course, long before that, women had scads of children. I assume that no one asked her if she wanted to breed like that, it just happened because women were really quite unclear about most things but especially about babies. Plus they knew that they had to “do their duty” and that certainly meant whatever their husband wanted. A family of 8, 10, 15 or even 20 wasn’t that unusual. Of course, not all the children reached adulthood, but if one died in infancy, there was always another one to come along.
Back then, no one really talked about sex or how babies were born or whether or not a woman was enjoying the process. Sex, birth and even death were just part of life. And, I for one, am not sure that this wasn’t a good thing!
Right now, even though I complained about it before, television has taken the idea of sex and all the accompanying issues as their right to discuss it, especially at dinner time or whenever children are still up and watching. In the beginning I thought that Viagra was an abomination that shouldn’t be discussed on T.V. but now, Viagra hardly scratches the surface of inappropriate topics for kids.
As I have mentioned before, I have two grandsons who are 13 and 11 and I would hate to know how much more they know about products to enhance your sex life than I do. Fortunately, we don’t discuss much, even after some hideous commercial is aired right between two programs that we are watching about 7-8:00 in the evening! The other night there was a tableau with a smiling man and woman who were telling us all how thrilled they were that she had sent for “male enhancement” for him and how terrific it was for both of them. After it was over, my eleven year old said to me, “Don’t pay any attention to that Nana, it is stupid to discuss such things at night when you old folks have to see it.” And he was right.
Does he know what a product for male enhancement is? I certainly don’t, and I don’t think I want to know. And the commercial with a couple in bed or getting into bed all thrilled to have a certain product that is made specifically for a man and another for a woman... do any of us, old, young, man or woman need to know about these things on T.V. during family time? I really think that the women of my grandmother’s time had it hard, trying to birth and raise so many kids. A litter was not unusual! But they didn’t have to watch commercial after commercial, in front of their brood, about how to pleasure their man and themselves with all sorts of products for men to make things even better than the good Lord intended. And what do our kids think and probably expect?
Whatever it is, most of us who are adults with a little age on us, know what is what and don’t care or expect anything that needs outside help to make life an orgasmic dream! Or if we do and I am just too old to know or care, so be it. Life and love have been going along since the beginning of time and what makes it even better, no one had to discuss such foolishness with their children, who are too young to know, anyway.
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