The footage is not enough to read/spin into a definitive narrative. It's long known that Melania is unwilling to show any signs of intimacy towards anybody - not even much to Baron - in PUBLIC, as far as we know. Much as I detest Donald Trump, I don't care to speculate on anyone's private family life. What I WOULD do though, if I'm Donald Trump, is to "test the waters" inside AF1 before coming out of the plane to face the cameras. Clearly, he never learn.

Leg Over Day also happens to be my birthday. It's terrible. Forced social interaction, the possibility of intimacy and the reminder that you are getting older all at once. What a nightmare.

I suppose this works in the same way as seeing other people smiling can make you happy. Your brain responds to different cues all the time. Making yourself smile or laugh can make you feel better, feel happy. We don't look into another person's eyes like this until we reach a certain level of intimacy, so if that is happening then our brains respond as if you have that level of intimacy.

I'm going to find my wife and gaze into her eyes for four minutes. If she's lucky I'll tell her what's going on

One day I want to be the old couple.

"Actually, it’s an advertisement for clothes, and most of these strangers are professional performers who are experienced in acting out love, sex, and intimacy for crowds."

http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2014/03/11/first_kiss_video_tatia_pilieva_films_strangers_who_are_also_actors_models.html

"Gender Identity, Queer Theory, feminist technoscience, Intimacy and Mutual Respect" -- I'm quite glad you didn't give feminist technoscience any capital letters. Apparently it does exist though, at least in basic form on wikipedia.

Surely separating yourself from the scientific and technological community at large is counter productive to the idea of feminism? The scientific "community" are only interested in if something is scientific or not and "sex" is something that happens to people who go to parties. At what point did feminism become associated with setting yourself apart as female - in an equal environment - and shouting about it?

On the other hand, if they're getting a grant to do scientific studies by calling themselves feminist, that's more cash going towards intellectual endeavours. I'd like to know what kind of science came from it, especially towards the end when they began peeking at each other's bits.

Fake smiles are odious, despicable, disgusting things that shit on the warmth of the human experience.

All day long we interact with flesh-mask wearing professional liars, who've killed the joy of intimacy and drape her skin over their practiced and putrefying selfish resentment.

..that's the way I see it anyway. Please don't smile at me because you think it makes you seem polite and friendly.

So they had a preview of this earlier in the year where the actors and director were explaining how they filmed this to be actual live singing and not just a voiceover, and how much better that would be. I was like 80% sold hearing the description, but there wasn't much of an actual example in that preview.

Basically most musicals have the actors singing the parts in a studio, and then 2 months later are playing it out and just mouthing out the words to a pre-recorded track. This is NOT that. This is the actors singing live as they are acting. It's very much still a movie, but the singing is not a voiceover track...

This is stunning. I'm not one for musicals but I think I'll find a way to see this. It has all the good elements of a theatrical play with the narrative scope of a movie. I'm not saying it'll replace the intimacy of a playhouse theatre, but this is impressive work.

@hpqp
Sadly, I think you're spot-on about the other failing of the firearm analogy; some people are just itching for an opportunity to shoot someone. And yes, some of those people will try to raise children in their image.

In my view, my answer to "The Big Question" is "Only before implantation, if at all. Because I know that a child is demonstrably human well prior to delivery, and tracing back I cannot rationally distinguish a point where the line is crossed after implantation. I would rather err on the side of caution when human life is involved." In light of this, it should be obvious why I am opposed to even early abortion. I'm curious about your almost offhand dismissal of adoption as a non-solution and "worse". It sounds like this is a topic you have discussed previously at length. To me, even a grievously flawed system of adoption is preferable to abortion.
I do think you raise a potent point with respect to sex through coercion as distinguished from rape.
Even so, I do not see carrying and delivering a child to be "punishment". It is a substantial burden, to be sure, but in my perspective the alternative is abhorrent to the point as to be unacceptable.

I think analogies in general fail when discussing abortion because it is such a unique situation.
Note: In discussing your analogies, I'm going to use the term "kill" with respect to abortion. Going back to "the Big Question", whether or not this is an accurate term is probably going to depend on your perspective relative to the wad of cells we term a fetus. (Which I see you're searching for.)
The helmet analogy fails because efforts to save the life of the helmet-shunner do not necessarily harm someone else as directly as in abortion. You can find harm, sure: saving feckless may divert resources from saving the life of burning-nun-bus-rescue-hero, but you aren't necessarily killing someone else to save him.
Same for the STDs. Treating an STD kills bacteria, or uses up anti-viral medication, but there's no direct harm to another individual in the process. For me, living with the consequences of getting an STD means living with one of the incurable ones or living with a curable one until it gets managed, and dealing with the social stigma of informing other partners of your status.

I disagree with the assessment that the procedure is "punishment enough", primarily because I don't think that punishment is due. Again, it's not a woman's "fault" that she's pregnant, and sex is not some grievous crime to be prosecuted. Sex is a wonderful experience that can be a carnal pleasure, an act of intimacy, or both, but one that carries consequences. The initiation of a new human life is a possible outcome. (Yes, the procedure is unpleasant, often painful, and some women will experience regret or other emotional disturbances afterwards, but those are, again, possible consequences of a choice.)

I agree wholeheartedly that more education is essential. Increased access to contraceptives (and hopefully more effective contraceptives) will (almost) certainly lessen the incidence of unwanted pregnancies. I appreciate that "don't have sex if you can't accept being pregnant" is not a magical incantation that makes people not have sex, but it has to be a part of it, because no method of contraception is 100% effective, even if used correctly.

I look forward to your followup on the "ball of cells" issue.

Thanks, bud!
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*promote both the ever adorable KB, but also the funnies.

Some of those girls acted more freaked out than they would if you grabbed their boobs. "What is this intimacy?!?! Just grope me ya weirdo!!"

BTTT

Thank you for a wonderful video, and to Belladonna and Alberto for sharing their intimacies and art.

Friendship is a form of interpersonal relationship generally considered to be closer than association, although there is a range of degrees of intimacy in both friendships and associations.

Value that is found in friendships is often the result of a friend demonstrating the following on a consistent basis:

The tendency to desire what is best for the other

Sympathy and empathy

Honesty, perhaps in situations where it may be difficult for others to speak the truth, especially in terms of pointing out the perceived faults of one's counterpart

Mutual understanding and compassion; ability to go to each other for emotional support

Enjoyment of each other's company

Trust in one another

Positive reciprocity — a relationship is based on equal give-and-take between the two parties.

The ability to be oneself, express one's feelings and make mistakes without fear of judgement.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendship

>> ^ChaosEngine:

>> ^smooman:
one more thing, if you honestly think that having sex with your S.O. before you marry em is what is gonna ensure you have great sex.......you really dont understand sex, at least on an intimate level. experience and time with one woman will produce mind bending sex, as opposed to experience from quantity of partners

I never said that. I said that if you're going to commit to marrying someone, you should not do so lightly. You should make an effort to get to know each other in every way and that includes sexually.
You don't know me or anything about me, so don't assume what I do or don't know about sex and intimacy. For the record, I have been married for several years, and before that my wife was my girlfriend for even longer.
This is really not that complicated. Or do you genuinely believe that it is better to wait until you're married to have sex?
Oh and SeesThruYou, you're a troll and not a very good one. We have world class trolls here like QM. Try harder.


who said that was directed squarely at you? lets try and not be so much of a martyr

"Or do you genuinely believe that it is better to wait until you're married to have sex?"
speaking of presuppositions, could you point out to me what words i strung together that you misunderstood as me championing abstinence till marriage?

>> ^smooman:

one more thing, if you honestly think that having sex with your S.O. before you marry em is what is gonna ensure you have great sex.......you really dont understand sex, at least on an intimate level. experience and time with one woman will produce mind bending sex, as opposed to experience from quantity of partners


I never said that. I said that if you're going to commit to marrying someone, you should not do so lightly. You should make an effort to get to know each other in every way and that includes sexually.

You don't know me or anything about me, so don't assume what I do or don't know about sex and intimacy. For the record, I have been married for several years, and before that my wife was my girlfriend for even longer.

This is really not that complicated. Or do you genuinely believe that it is better to wait until you're married to have sex?

Oh and SeesThruYou, you're a troll and not a very good one. We have world class trolls here like QM. Try harder.

"And how many of the couples who manage to stay together for the long haul have done so by resigning themselves to sacrificing their eroticism on the altar of three of life’s irreplaceable joys: family stability, companionship, and emotional, if not sexual, intimacy?" Sex at Dawn: Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality", the book that Dan Savage calls "the most important book on human sexuality since the Kinsey Report," which makes the argument that, while fidelity may be very well and good, it is in fact fighting evolution and human nature.