Another version of this "exhibitionistic' behavior can be found in Woody Allen's film "Everything you always wanted to know about Sex." In one segment, played by Woody and his co-actress entirely in Italian, to simulate an "artsy, European" piece, Woody [Fabrizio, hilarious] finds out that his wife is completely dead sexually in intimate situations, and can only "do it" in public and if there is risk involved. This results in hysterically funny bits where the two are banging each other in a furniture store, at a party and finally at a restaurant under the table of some OTHER patrons! The wife gets so excited that she bites the leg of the unwitting lady sitting down to her meal; the lady screams bloody murder and Woody and his wife crawl out from under in much haste. The end scene has the wife serenely explaining to Woody that as long as they always 'do it in public' there will be no problems with her sex drive.
Part of women's exhibitionistic behavior involves the thrill of doing something out of the ordinary, but also due to the fact that women's bodies are objectified - here I don't mean it in a sociopolitical sense, but purely from a sociobiological standpoint. The male does "objectify" the female in the sense that he is stimulated sexually by focusing on her breasts, hips, waist, pubic area, etc. This behavior has evolved over thousands of years and it is what it is - a behavior which should not necessarily be judged as something "antifeminist" or the like. And so, for millennia, women have also evolved in the process, in the sense that they are used to, and ENJOY being looked at, unless they've been robbed of their self-esteem by comparing themselves endlessly to idealized images of airbrushed fashion models.
"Being looked at" is one of the few sexual processes that have become incorporated into female sexuality, and it's one of the few aspects of sex that women have been able to truly fetishize. Hence, the enjoyment of "being looked at" can reach almost compulsive proportions. And men, who are no strangers to this behavior, will be fascinated and truly enjoy it in return! N.b. that this type of "exhibitory behavior" takes a different form in men, some of who like to exhibit their genitals in the form of flashing. This is not at all what women do - there is very little or NO focus on genitals, at least not in public. Instead, it's the alluring image, the sexual availability and the promise of copulation that some women enjoy 'advertising.' And men, who have evolved into happy takers if offered, are both excited and fascinated by this behavior. After all, men are not 'objectified' in the same manner and it would look ludicrous for a male to 'prance' or exhibit himself in ways similar to women. Hence, a lot of men view this female-type behavior with fascination - they like it, but they also can't completely understand it.
So you go ahead and have some fun, Bostonguy57. I'm sure you'll have lots of action and happy memories from it!
I'm sitting naked as a write this,
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the Love Goddess
-- Modified on 3/16/2008 6:44:33 AM