Dear Houellebecq,

You want me to stop flirting with you
because I'm married?

How very provincial
of you dear heart. Then you'd better stop refering
to me as 'Young Lass." Because I find that very
attractive. :)

You were wondering why we " never see a man say he
was "used" for sex?"

Let's take an intelligent guess shall we?

Could it be because some men have been trained
to believe that "real men" get sex from women, and if they
don't they aren't men? It's going to take decades to re-educate
these men into understanding that their identity is not
based on erections and penetration. And even longer for
them not to pre-judge females for their lack of performance
in this area.

These men need to find out the reasons why their partners are
not being turned on by them. And not blame it on female
repression. The problem may just lie with poor male performance.

As for my sharing with you the happy state of my marriage.
That was in response to your comments made to me about
sex and intimacy in your previous post. I simply
wanted to set the record straight.

And, I'm delighted that you are in a good relationship
as well.

Slug (name suits)Re your comment: "If this woman was up to the job at hand she would not be bypassed, for a prostitute" - I have happily, joyfully, resigned and left him to the prostitutes and whatever woman will put up with it. There is absolutely no competition between me and a prostitute. I take your remark as a compliment. Mrs Pierno (not at all like a prostitute)

*Aren't you guys aware that it takes considerably more than one average income to service a mortgage these days*

CJ, surely you are aware that the average salary in the WA mining
industry is in the 6 figures, well above an average wage.

There are good reasons for fly in fly out, many wives insist on it,
as they aren't going out into the scrub, to put up with the
heat, dust and flies, without the comforts of city life.

For the same reason many country areas can't find Australian
doctors. Their wives don't want to live in the bush without
city comforts.

Like I said Yabby, the situation you describe is hardly typical of Australian workers, most of whom don't work in mines. The lifestyle you describe sounds like a recipe for domestic disaster, and unsatisfactory for all concerned. The money may be good, but at what cost to family life?

I'm talking about the far more normal Australian household, where all the economic cards aren't held by men who expect sex in exchange for bringing home the bacon. Frankly, the kind of expectation that you describe has far more in common with prostitution than the kinds of relationships that happy, sexually and emotionally satisfied people have.

Mrs Pierno - do you think that the age difference between you and your ex-husband may have had something to do with his desire for more (or different) sex than with you?

I ask this as a serious question. As a man in my mid-50s I'm not sure that I'd be able to keep up with a libidinous woman in her early 30s (at least without pharmaceutical assistance). I do, however, have a delightful, loving and mutually satisfying relationship with a woman of my own age.

Dear CJ,

Did it every occur to anyone that this
entire thread could just be a big hoax?

I wonder if mrs pierno - is really who
she says she is? Or if "she" is actually
a "she?"

Here we are presenting all sorts of arguments,
carrying on this discussion, when we've all
been in fact 'punk'd.' (set up). Brilliantly.

Just a thought.

Dear Foxy,

An anagram of pierno is rip one. Maybe we all have been ripped. With malice toward all and fear no pierno.