Life goes on. I'll spare Mr. Blurty the details. Essentially, it's routine stuff. So I'll skip it, since there is more interestng stuff to write about.
Somehow when my wife is online, she closes the browser in such a way that the pages she has open will reopen when the browser is restarted. On this occasion, she had a bunch of pages from Beliefnet.com reopen. That's a nice site. I check it out myself.
Among the stuff that reopened was the results of a "lust test" she had taken. Possible scores range from 0 to 32. Hers was a 4. It was right in the middle of the range rated "When did your convent get wired?"
Very interesting. Beliefnet's articles indicate that many religious people (Christian and other faiths) feel that lust is sinful; that's very believable. But why? I sure don't feel that way, and that's one of the things that has me feeling negative about religion. My feeling is that lust is a gift, that it's very natural and that we were meant by our maker to enjoy those wonderfully pleasurable feelings. And especially when we're with our partner, how can it be sinful?
Here is a link to an article by a Beliefnet rabbi about the topic. His enlightened view, unfortunately, seems to be rare in the religious community.
All I can say is that if my wife were even a little bit lustful toward me--something I crave--the marriage would be so much happier and I'd feel better. For one thing, I wouldn't look to satisfy this craving from other women. But it seems that lust is something almost totally absent from her life. And it means to much to me. So why did I have to get unlucky in whom I married?
By the way, I took the test myself, and I got an 18. That was at the upper end of the middle category--my body "isn't a temple, but it isn't a fast food joint, either." So it goes.
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