Sex and relationships: a practical consideration

I don't think that there's a strait answer for this simply because I don't think any two people really have the same take on sex. For some, sex is the relationship. No sex, no relationship. For others, sex is just a physical act and they don't care too much about it. For yet others, sex conveys a deep emtional attachment to someone that cannot be expressed via other means.

Because of that, its not useful to try and formulate a blanket statement regarding how sex affects a relationship. No two relationships are really the same. Your partner might interpret the sexual act in ways that you never intended, or they might not give it a second thought. Your going to have to try and read the other person to figure out how they interpret sex before making a judgement as to whether or not its really going to change the dynamic of your relationship

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Relationships aren't driven by statistics and population samples. If you start making decisions in a relationship based on averages from statistical data, you're going to run into problems. You need to learn to treat the individual as a unique individual with unique individual needs, motivations, and feelings or you will meet unpleasant surprises.

The best thing you can do is learn to read the other person, even on the first date. If you have to be as blunt as bringing up the topic of sex on the first date, than do so. The last thing you want is to be surprised to learn that your partner thinks that sex is the holiest gift from God, second only to touching the face of Jesus Christ himself.

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Incidentally, the advertising industry says that yes, people ARE that predictable. Economics is hard mainly because there are too many stupid people holding positions of authority, not because economists have a hard time figuring out how people will act.

The advertising industry is irrelevant here. The Advertising Industry caters to millions of people at the same time. I don't think that Avalokiteshvara is planning on engaging in a sexual relationship with millions of people at the same time.

When you are describing a population, you use statistics. When you are describing less than ten people, statistics breaks down very fast and is not very useful.

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Originally Posted by fluffywuffy4

I dunno, but it kinda seems that once sex starts the arguments start then too, but I dunno lol that what my healthteacher said.

I guess you don't have a lot of personal experience with that, then ?

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