No Fairytale

Society can really be something else. In good ways and bad ways society has it's influence on many things we do.

I caught an interview today with Stephen A. Smith formerly of ESPN on "The View" this afternoon. The topic of discussion was Sex addiction and monogamy. He says that men really dont' truly want to be monogamous. His argument was that no man sees a woman and says "she is the only one I want." I must agree to some degree. He says that with maturity men begin to weigh decisions. he states that it becomes and issue of us wanting something, but is it worth losing what you currently have. In a scenario like that you get the monogamy that's said we don't truly want.

An analogy was made to a drug addict being clean, but still having urges to use. You still don't indulge and you continue being happy in your sobriety, but urges still remain. It may seem radical, but it's actually a different way of looking at it. I think he really does give a good point. I know urges will be there and we don't always want to be monogamous, I think it's more innate than anything else. But when the right one does present them self we do make the sacrifice eventually.

Society tells us to be married and have a family and all these things are well and good. At the same token, it isn't for everyone and I think the points made in the interview messes up the Utopian fairytale that society tries to perpetuate.