News links from D ....

OK, these links have nothing to do with any of the story lines in this blog, but the first one is funny and the other is fascinating ... and they were both sent to me by D.

A little background: last week I was chatting with a couple of women from our Human Resources department. As an aside, one of them mentioned a luncheon they had both gone to, where some specialist gave a speech full of gloomy economic prognostications. And the other added that she had heard that Larry Flynt has made a public statement to the effect that the porn industry needs a bailout -- or at any rate, he has said that if all these other industries are getting free money, he wants some too. So she started riffing on how absurd this was: after all, she speculated, surely if any industry were recession-proof it would be the porn industry. In tough times, when people are feeling depressed and in need of a quick pick-me-up, she went on, surely porn would be flourishing. In the middle of this, the first one suddenly pointed at me to say, "Look how red his face is getting!" And I excused myself to go back to my desk and get some work done.

Or at any rate to write my girlfriend all about it .... So I sent my story to D and she replied back with a link to an article about this very issue. You can find it here.

Then this morning, she sent me a link to an entirely different article -- an extended review of the current sexological research into the question "What Do Women Want?" Her accompanying e-mail was a bit more cautious this time:

Beloved Hosea,...I send you this article with some trepidation, but it's so interesting, and, with some embarrassment, but recognition, I acknowledge much of what the researchers discuss...see what you think. I love you, so much, in every way.

Here's the link.

I am, of course, powerfully curious which findings she recognizes so well, but I may have to wait for a more auspicious time to ask her -- for example, in person and not over e-mail. Maybe a good motive for me to find an occasion to get away, as if I needed another motive ...?
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