It’s called “shopdropping”. It’s shoplifting in reverse. People take things into stores and leave them there for various reasons of their own. You can read the whole story in the New York Times, but the upshot is that folks, many of them artists, are subverting the stores. The religious right is into the deal, they put Christianist/Creationist flyers and cartoons in science magazines and gay/lesbian themed books and magazines. On the other hand, atheists are moving Bibles into the science fiction/fantasy shelves. Apparently, its been going on since 1989 when activists traded GI Joe voice hardware for Barbie voice hardware and vice versa to make some kind of feminist point about stereotyping. A “sad” example is people who return pets and just abandon them at Petco, including dropping hamsters into “dry” fishtanks.
I love this idea, too!
In the post below, there’s the suggestion that having sex three times a week is a real health advantage with respect to heart attacks and strokes. Of course, my blogging friends like Flibbertigibbit and MCARP have picked up on it. However, I realized that I’ve never had a long term relationship that averaged three times a week after the first few weeks of that hot-as-fire infatuation. I’m not sure I know what it would look like or how such a relationship would work. If you know anyone who has experienced such a thing, I would like to hear testimony and don’t care if it’s anonymous.
John,
It is simply like winning the lottery. It happens but not often. My sister has been married for 24 years and she and her husband have had sex 3 – 7 times a week since the day they started dating 25 years ago. Finding the right person early in life can be a key I think. They both say they have been entirely faithful. Neither have any addictions or mental illnesses that put pressure on their fidelity. BOTH parties have worked very very hard on themselves and the relationship. They are very unselfish people. They have a wonderful balance of activities they do together and seperately. They are not in debt so there is no worry on the financial end and I think that helps. Early on they made material sacrifices so they would not have any financial pressure. If one is seriously worried about anything major it decreases the libido, I think. She and he work out regulary and both are height/weight healthy. Not prefect but good enough. Their house is clean and comfortable. They do nice things for each other after 22 years. Really nice gestures. They laugh at everything. They talk to each other. They have the same belief system in politics and religion. They are educated and both read. They do not watch a lot of television. They eat the same diet. I could go on but those are some of the reasons I think my sister and her husband have an incredible sex life. They just left for Mexico for their own private “sex holiday”. Two middle-aged Texans and I swear it will be hotter than most. I envy them but I am very happy for my sister. At least I do not have to hear her complain like she does me. She got the seratonin in this family and that is okay. I am looking forward to seeing what happens in the next life…..
Merry Christmas.
Hmmm, sounds good. Actually it sounds familiar, like the relationship that guy. I had an affair with was in. It all ended well, though (between us, not them). My experience with the frequency of sex is that the more I have, the more i want it. If I go a week without sex, I start dreading doing it. I get bitchy. But then when I suck it up and let it go, I looooove it and wonder why I ever felt otherwise. Then I gotta have it every day and start freaking out that my guy doesn’t want to do it one day. Maybe it’s addiction. Whatever. Something to think about I spose.
Happy XXX-Mas to you, John!
Now I know why, when there are obstacles that cannot be overcome, we call it “fucked up.” Seems there’s nothing more fucked up than fucking.