I've been in a situationship for three years. I want to make caring for her a part of my life forever...yet she has far too often been THIS close to throwing our entire relationship away. Why? Because i long to be with other wimyn.
This is NOT a weakness or character flaw. It's actually a little miracle. That i want to, and am capable of, loving more than one person, is a little miracle. I mean real love, not the fake transactional bullshit all around us. Being able to see someone's fears, vanities...the ugly bits we all carry...being able to see all that in someone and still say "I can love you".
Most people are too crippled in their own self-love, to be able to love anyone else well. Against the odds, my self-love is brimming.
Real love. I long for it every day. And in healing amounts that one person can't possibly fulfill. Any other fate feels like a prison sentence shockingly cruel.
Input all that into most wimyn's brains, and their heads will explode.
And i get that part of this is biological. Males and females experience sexuality differently. There is much common ground...we all consume the same ingredients in the stew of love...but the quantities are wildly different. During sex, the female brain produces fifty times more oxytocin than the male. Oxytocin is the bonding hormone. So it's entirely fair to say that no man will ever begin to understand what sex feels like for a womyn.
I get all that...and yet, historically it's time for wimyn to pull their heads out of their asses. To see the cultural aspects of sex, how it's been poisoned by patriarchal possessiveness and fear. We need to be smarter than our biology, else we will only keep perpetuating cycles of cruelty.
Science has learned too much about our biological natures, to keep walking in the shadow of our society's fears.
Why am i picking on females?
Because the world needs wimyn to be smarter than men.
Like they usually are.
If we're counting on men to fix the mess they've made of our species...it's probably never going to happen.
Fixing humynity will require wimyn to lead the way. In sex and all else, wimyn must lead.
So at long last, let's lay our willful stupidity down.
