PREMARITAL RELATIONS (Oct, 1965) From Playgirl.

An engaged couple candidly discusses the age-old problem of PREMARITAL RELATIONS

See, they're engaged, and he really really really wants to have sex, but she wants to wait for marriage....

He sez:

I respect Alice and wouldn’t think her cheap if she gave herself to me now. Many is the time that I’ve argued this point with her and tried to convince her that our love is God-given while the marriage contract is only a man-made device of society. If it will be all right to fulfill our sexual desires after we are legally married as the culmination of our love for each other, do we love each other any less now that we can deny ourselves the right to make love?

She sez:

Yes, I’m quite sure that we are going to get married, even if we started having intimate relations from now to the time of our wedding bells. But. what if Dick did find some excuse to back out of the engagement? Where would I be then? I’d be thrown back into the pond, probably with the word getting around that I was no longer chaste. I’m well aware of the fact that non-virgins do manage to get married, but I’d rather not gamble on being passed from one fellow to another for sampling. If I want to lead that kind of life, I’d be better off doing it on a commercial scale, than being an unpaid amateur in search of a husband.

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Dick doesn’t know it but when we just started going steady. I found out that one time when he lied and said he couldn’t take me out. he was out with the boys—out whorering. I dated a former beau that night and came as close as I ever did to losing my virginity. I did things that night, that in retrospect shock me now, but I was angry and I was trying to get even for the hurt of being tossed aside for a strumpet.

eta: What's funny is even then, premarital sex was common, but the article pretends it's not.

A London gym is offering a "Chav Fighting" class: [link]

Chav Fighting techniques include the "haymaker" and the good old-fashioned headbutt. He described the soon-to-be-extinct chav as "scourge of modern-day Britain" and, inevitably, cited "the rise in knife crime" as a solid reason why white collars should learn the crimebusting benefits of the Glasgow Kiss.

In perhaps the most first world of problems, I came perilously close to running out of room on my DVR's terabyte hard drive. Without quick action this morning, something might have failed to record.

Also, something I find really annoying, advertisements on a DVD I have purchased. On well, once it has been ripped and put on my DVR's second terabyte drive that's reserved for Xvid videos (all of it either ripped from purchased DVDs or recorded personally off the air and edited) then that won't be an issue. Still it bugs me.

Every once and awhile I end up telling the kids, like an old person, that they don't know how good they have it TV wise just turning on the TV and having a huge digital video library available to them.

Every once and awhile I end up telling the kids, like an old person, that they don't know how good they have it TV wise just turning on the TV and having a huge digital video library available to them.

Conversations I'll someday have with my daughter that will make little to no sense to her no matter how much I try to explain

Ah, brave new world with TiVo in it!

Every so often now I start thinking that one of those new two terabyte drives would be nice to have in my DVR.

I'm working on a column sort of like that blog, Gud. My dad didn't have electricity until he was 11. We have broadband, a Wii, cellphones and a van with a DVD player in it.

It's amazing how fast the tech is evolving.

And yet, still no TRANSPORTER.

mac who did not have a phone in his home for his first 4 years and who I do not believe saw more than a few people with cell phones, he cannot believe a world without answering machines and multiple numbers for people.

I remember when I bought my first Zip drive.

I'd like to have a Wii, but I don't think I could talk my wife into one.