Huh, I've heard Sydney Sheldon can be a little graphic sometimes, but the only one I've ever read was rather tame, so no idea.
They use all these clinical terms to sort of distance themselves from the shameful idea of somebody else, not only watching you naked, but touching while naked. And also? nudity. It's really silly, a complete waste of time and resources, but it's what you got.
I believe the experience of parenting robs you from certain memories that would potentially jeopardize your abilities as a care taker/provider? I think it has to do with the very famous romantic concept of giving your children what you never had, only in a crooked, reversed kinda way, you know? Like, I did wonder, but my kids won't because they're not me and times are different and I'm not parents and all that, so it would actually be more like "don't make the same mistakes that I made"... okay, I lost myself there a bit. Stupefying is a good way to put it.
Exactly! I've even heard reasoning that says they wish to reserve that introduction to themselves, I've heard parents say they want to be the ones to first speak about sex with their children, and then they never do it, or if they do, it's something entirely romanticized and worst, glossed over, so in the end their noble intentions faded away because they mostly left their offspring in a even more shaky ground than where they started out.
I maintain nudity factors somehow, but I'm not sure up to what extend and I'm not quite sure either, of what else would factor in that awkwardness.
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Date: 2007-09-19 04:53 pm (UTC)They use all these clinical terms to sort of distance themselves from the shameful idea of somebody else, not only watching you naked, but touching while naked. And also? nudity. It's really silly, a complete waste of time and resources, but it's what you got.
I believe the experience of parenting robs you from certain memories that would potentially jeopardize your abilities as a care taker/provider? I think it has to do with the very famous romantic concept of giving your children what you never had, only in a crooked, reversed kinda way, you know? Like, I did wonder, but my kids won't because they're not me and times are different and I'm not parents and all that, so it would actually be more like "don't make the same mistakes that I made"... okay, I lost myself there a bit.
Stupefying is a good way to put it.
Exactly! I've even heard reasoning that says they wish to reserve that introduction to themselves, I've heard parents say they want to be the ones to first speak about sex with their children, and then they never do it, or if they do, it's something entirely romanticized and worst, glossed over, so in the end their noble intentions faded away because they mostly left their offspring in a even more shaky ground than where they started out.
I maintain nudity factors somehow, but I'm not sure up to what extend and I'm not quite sure either, of what else would factor in that awkwardness.