It's like guys have some kind of automatic semi-conscious counter that calculates along the lines of 8 car doors opened + 2 theater tickets purchased + 1 lawn mowed = 1 hot sexual encounter. The funny thing is that the equation works forwards and backwards so HD monkey girls can use it too. You just have to be a little bit organized and self-disciplined and self-aware. Like I was good about letting the guy I met today fetch me coffee but if I really wanted to make him horny I should have asked him to bring me a cookie too on the second run.
Hmmm... too much of that and "strong bunny" becomes "spoiled princess" and the attractiveness goes back down.
Although that whole spiel does throw some light on Mrs. Eddie. Over the years she showed a tendency to "play helpless" or maybe "play dumb" and I tended to get exasperated with her and sometimes wondered if maybe she really was kind of an idiot. But she seemed to get a lot smarter and more competent in the last couple of years and recently admitted that she did tend to "play dumb" in the past (but, as seems to be common in male-female communications, couldn't manage to give a reason why that I could understand). In our case that sort of thing backfired and her attractiveness to me went up when she switched to playing.... I can't think of a creature here, but one of the female Heinlein characters that really likes and appreciates men but doesn't want or need them holding her hand just to get through her day.
Although, come to think of it, I do think it's rather cute and sexy when she bats her eyes and asks for something. But now it's kind of a game between us and not a sign that I've handicapped my kids by saddling them with the genes of a helpless overgrown child, nor a sign that I've signed up for a lifetime of being her errand boy.
a fine and enviable madness, this delusion that all questions have answers, and nothing is beyond the reach of a strong left arm.
