Posted on 08/20/2012 11:40:25 AM PDT by nickcarraway
The setting is the quiet corner of an Italian restaurant in the City; the players are George, an IT specialist, and Zoe, who wears a pretty dress and a big smile; they drink an especially good bottle of wine and when they get to coffee he reaches over and kisses her on the mouth. She surprises him by kissing him back. To onlookers it might be the classic opening scene of a traditional romance.
Yet both parties are married to other people, whom they have no intention of leaving. Although they will go on to enjoy all the spoils of a relationship, from intimate phone calls to Christmas shopping trips and, of course, regular sex, this is understood from the outset. They are in fact launching into a playfair, a 21st-century affair in which would-be adulterers meet, via specialist dating websites, to enjoy the excitement of an illicit relationship without any of the domestic fallout.
Alongside the internet dating revolution, these playfairs are evidence of a potentially dramatic shift in British marriage. As dating websites open up a global shop window of sexual possibilities, as life expectancy continues to rise and we become increasingly sexually aware, how can we still take the crushing old rules of fidelity, that turn marriage into a prison, for granted? Why should we not be able to recapture the heady thrills of youth, while protecting a secure home life? The time has come, alongside the technology, to redraw the rules of marriage for the 21st century. Just as the Pill opened up premarital sex in the Sixties, the internet is opening up a whole new culture of affairs among married people. Sex has become a major leisure activity of our time, accessible to everyone, married or not, rich and poor. Its time to start honing
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Fixed it. Author is an idiot.
The Recipe for Happiness? An Enduring Marriage With Lots of Sex and Beer.
My thoughts exactly!!! ;-)
Apparently not...
French farmer 'mows down love rival with tractor' - Telegraph www.telegraph.co.uk
lol. Get an ugly girl? Oy vey, that’s a bit extreme.
So according to this article William Jefferson Clinton is a happy fellow?
I doubt it. He doesn’t look he’s into Hillary much. :P
When the lights are out, we all look like Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie.................
Does "self pleasure" count?
“Who’ll take the woman with the skinny legs?
Won’t someone puhlease take the woman with the skinny legs?”
This was a favorite song from my youth. I still sing the words sometimes.
I’m gonna go with “no” ... but there could be exceptions.
SnakeDoc
Read the comments at the bottom of the article, you will be heartened.
Mrs. B doesn't much care for beer ... which is kind of a bummer, since I'm a brewer ...
Wine, OTOH ....
;'}
Good movie.........got the DVD............
No. I for one, am master of my domain.
Hard to blame gay activists for destroying marriage when our side keeps doing stuff like THIS to it...
“Saturday night was for wives, but Friday night at the Copa was always for the girlfriends.”
Perverts unite! An “expert” seys you smart.
You know, people are entitled to their own opinions but they aren't entitled to their own truth.
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