Some Thoughts About Saturday Night Fever
Raise your hands, guys, if you go out looking for a wife on Saturday night. You don’t, do you? You definitely go out looking for girls, but you’re not looking for a lasting commitment. That’s not always the case with the girls, though.
It’s not altogether accurate to make blanket statements about human behavior, but in many ways we’re all alike. Men in general don’t think in terms of relationships, they think in terms of having sex. The relationship part of the equation doesn’t enter until they’re hopelessly in love. Ask any group of men if they have ever thought about solitaire engagement rings and they will just laugh.
On the other hand, ask a thousand girls if they have ever thought about princess cut engagement rings and probably every hand in the place will go up. Women think about commitment. Men don’t.
Nature must be very clever to have found a way to make men make a commitment to women. As if by magic, what started out as a simple affair turns into a full blown love affair. Suddenly a man is willing to throw away his freedom just to be with one woman. Some people even think falling in love is a form of insanity, but without it, life probably wouldn’t work.
The whole mating process really boils down to deeply rooted biological imperatives. We have outsmarted nature somewhat with birth control, so now women have more sexual freedom than they used to have. In the past, if a woman wasn’t very careful about choosing her mate, she would find herself pregnant and alone. Therefore, a commitment from a man was a higher priority than sexual desire. While birth control has eased the pressure, women still instinctively are looking for the security of commitment.
Men have never had that much pressure put on them, though. Since they weren’t the ones carrying the baby inside, they had the option of shirking the responsibility. Interestingly enough, though, even if society didn’t demand that men take that responsibility, most men would feel it somewhere inside. Still, before the baby comes along, unless he’s in love, all a man wants to do is get laid.
Squeeze all the pleasure out of your Saturday nights as you can, guys. You’re engaging in a mating ritual that is as old as time itself. While you’re standing in front of the mirror checking your new shirt out, the girls will be taking off their baggy girls sweatshirts and exchanging them for their sexiest outfits. You’ll meet at the bar or the club and dance and flirt the night away. With a little luck, you’ll get what your hormones were looking for.
One of these days, something’s going to happen to change all that. You’ll exchange your Saturday nights out on the town for a stint at changing the diapers. And you’ll like it. That’s just the way it works. Deal with it.
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