My bf and I went out to eat tonight. I had ordered The Vagina Monologues from netflix and it arrived the other day. We were talking about something and he brought up, "I guess we're going to watch it tonight, huh?" We have his kids this weekend and I said that L (one of the twins-- they're 16 yr old girls) had said that she really didn't want to see it (the show). I said to him, "I think they're old enough to see the Vagina Monologues, but I wouldn't be too comfortable with all four of us watching it together. I'd watch it with them or with you." He agreed and then came out with this, "I'm not even very comfortable with you saying the title right out here in public in this restaurant. Last night when B [his therapist] was talking about 'penis this' and 'penis that,' I was aware of being VERY uncomfortable with that explicit language."
This was really interesting to me. He is kind of prudish, which would surprise you if you saw him and met him because he exudes masculine confidence... this is so interesting. I can see kind of where it comes from, but it still surprises me when it pops up.
So then he said kind of humorously, "Let's not talk about it any more, let's just watch the damm thing so we don't have to take the chance that someone will hear us."
So I said, "Well I'll just refer to it as the 'Virginia Chronicles.'"
And he said, "Yeah! Or the 'Martian Chronicles"!" because his C is always talking about Mars and Venus.
It was really cute. He's approaching it as medicine that I want him to take, but he's being a really good sport about it. And of course he's probably curious. It's a great show that covers women's sexuality from the hilarious to the heartbreaking.
Who knows? One of these days I may fall in love with him.
