Admin Sat Sep 17, 2011 10:38 pm
Hi Pip,
I would assume (it's only an assumption, of course!) but I would assume that the majority of women who met their 'askims' whilst on holiday, probably excelerated the whole courtship due to all the obvious factors of time being short, and obviously the other contributing factors of being in a 'holiday setting' where the normal rule books of what's accetable and unacceptable are not adhered to so strictly.
If you meet a man you're very attracted to while on holiday, and the chemistry between you both is 'electric' - when you throw in the sun, sea, moonlight and stars the whole thing becomes very seductive. There's also very often a sense of urgency in that you both know time isn't on your side.
Having said that, I suppose I'm a bit 'old school' where sex is concerned. However attracted I am to someone, and however electric the chemistry is, I've always tended to hold back for a while. And not because I've thought I'd appear 'cheap' (though my mother and father always drummed it into me that 'nice girls' make men wait - it sounds so dated, I know) but I do think making them wait makes it more special. I really do. Besides, why would I 'give it away' to a man I'd just met, simply because he was good-looking and charming?! I also think that all that build up of sexual tension between a couple - the lead up to it all - makes the occasion so passionate and intense when it does finally happen. And as old-fashioned as it may sound, the sad truth is that men generally do respect a woman more if she's harder to get. It may be wrong, it may be unfair - but it's universally true.
Of course, with modern times things are much different now - people don't take any notice of women going out 'pulling' a man, and having sex on the first night they meet, but it isn't for me. And to be honest, I think I would feel cheap if I slept with someone the first night. And how about the chase? That's such a big part of the lead-up!
I guess I knew early on I was eventually going to have sex with Ertie, but we still had 'the chase' on my first holiday out there, and it was frustrating for us both, but there was something exciting about knowing he was wondering how much longer the chase was going to go on for!
Everyone's different, I guess, and we can only go by our own preferences and what we deem to be acceptable. I probably sound like a male chauvenist pig, but I do think if a woman jumps into bed with a man on the first night it makes lovemaking meaningless. I know men can have sex with a stranger - they'll even PAY to have sex with a stranger - but women are usually more reserved and fussy - and I'd imagine they'd find sex with a relative stranger they've only met in the flesh for the last few hours - a very cold, unemotional, unloving experience. And women can't separate sex and affection like men can.
Strawbs