They weren't even allowed to hold hands...

[NoJo]

I'm talking about the religious Jewsih couple whose wedding I attended yesterday. That's nearly two years of ZERO physical contact. My mind reels at the physical and emotional explosion after they retired to their nuptual bed.

Why do people make up all these silly rules?

 

[rgraham666]

For the same reasons guys piss out of car windows.

Because they can.

 

[Guest]

For the same reasons guys piss out of car windows.

Because they can.

Guys piss out car windows?

 

[TxRad]

Guys piss out car windows?

We're weird aren't we.

If you piss out the front seat window make sure your bud has the back glass up. Causes one hell of a fight otherwise.

 

[Guest]

I'm talking about the religious Jewsih couple whose wedding I attended yesterday. That's nearly two years of ZERO physical contact. My mind reels at the physical and emotional explosion after they retired to their nuptual bed.

Why do people make up all these silly rules?

The poor things. I hope they have a clue.

 

[Guest]

We're weird aren't we.

If you piss out the front seat window make sure your bud has the back glass up. Causes one hell of a fight otherwise.

I'm agog.

Or aghast.

One of those 'a' words, anyway.

 

[AvoidingRealWork]

The poor things. I hope they have a clue.

Nature tends to take its course, and folks figure stuff out pretty quickly.

"OW! Not in there... in THERE!"

 

[starrkers]

Nature tends to take its course, and folks figure stuff out pretty quickly.

"OW! Not in there... in THERE!"

Unless they're English apparently.

If this seems obscure, read the There'll Always Be an England" OP.

 

[fieryjen]

Unless they're English apparently.

If this seems obscure, read the There'll Always Be an England" OP.

My bio professor had a bunch of interesting experiences to talk about from when she worked at a planned parenthood clinic (in the US, not UK). Couples believing that laying next to each other sleeping would get them pregnant, couples cluelessly having urethral intercourse (if that's what it's called), and a woman putting grape jelly on her diaphragm before she had sex.

Apparently it's not just English people.

 

[cheerful_deviant]

Guys piss out car windows?

I'm proud to say, I've never pissed out a car window.

 

[AvoidingRealWork]

I'm proud to say, I've never pissed out a car window.

It's not something that would even occur to me.

 

[cheerful_deviant]

It's not something that would even occur to me.

That's probablly why I never did it.

 

[3113]

I'm talking about the religious Jewsih couple whose wedding I attended yesterday. That's nearly two years of ZERO physical contact. My mind reels at the physical and emotional explosion after they retired to their nuptual bed.

Why do people make up all these silly rules?

I had a cousin who got involved in an ultra-religious Jewish cult, and yes, the rabbi arranged it and there was no touching between the two till after the wedding (she'd now divorced). It's simply more evidence that human beings would rather believe in magic than facts. All these wacky practices--like Burkas and virginity till marriage--are created as a way of magically erasing the "grays" in human experience. Of magically making sure that a person can be on the side of "good" rather than bad with a very simple, easy to understand rule.

Magic promises that the universe can be divided into black and white.

That's really all there is to it. Don't touch till after marriage and all will be good, you will be on the white side...it's that easy. Magic. Superstition. They might as well rub a rabbit's foot. But faith in magic is far stronger than reason or common sense or the facts, especially when all of those end up honestly telling people that the "gray" areas can't be erased, and that there is no way to simplify the universe down to black and white, let alone do so easily and flawlessly.

Who want to believe that? Easier to ignore the facts and believe whatever it is you want to believe--and if you make others share it, then it's easier to maintain those convictions, to trust that the Emperor has clothes no matter what it is you're seeing.

a woman putting grape jelly on her diaphragm before she had sex.

I don't suppose that worked, huh?

 

[neonlyte]

I'm talking about the religious Jewsih couple whose wedding I attended yesterday. That's nearly two years of ZERO physical contact. My mind reels at the physical and emotional explosion after they retired to their nuptual bed.

Why do people make up all these silly rules?

It's a custom... not just being pedantic. It's fine to have a cultural nuance, as long as you don't seek to impose it on others, which is where the problems usually begin.

Two years... no touchy, I guess you know what you're getting yourself into after two years of looky.


Pissing out of the car window is far more sensible than pissing inside the car. Never conjoined cars and pissing; have pissed of the back of a boat, just make sure it's heading into the wind.