Live and let live. To each his/her own. And yet… During the
last few years, I noticed a disturbing metamorphosis. While I’d expect such
from male members of the human species, better known as inveterate sex-maniacs,
there is a growing number of women who once expected respect from men, who now
write books with their front covers displaying naked, or mostly naked bodies.
First, there were just females who
stripped for the camera. Later, men with washboard stomachs, or muscular
deltoids, were also expected to strip at least down to the waist, and display
what evidently became most attractive to the present day females.
That’s right. Not his face, or his
character, or his talent, or friendship, or position in life, but stomach and
back musculature.
Women, likewise, decided that unless
they strip and display primary or at least secondary sexual characteristics,
then no man would even look at them. Again, no intellect, or grace, of charm,
or innate femininity, let alone innocence, but sexual characteristics.
(Remember Audrey Hepburn?) Perhaps they concluded that unless they display
them, openly, on the front cover on virtually every book they write, no one
would even look at it, let alone buy it.
It appears that we inscribed a full
circle. We began as purely physical animals, and now we returned to our
original fascination. No mind, no brain, no imagination, but… sex. Pure or
dirty, no matter, as long as it is unadulterated sex.
They, the male and female members of
our species, who write those books, call themselves “authors” — the title that
had once been reserved for progenitors of literature. No insult intended. After
all, live and let live, and it is their choice. But in my life, women will
remain women, not just females.
Anyway, it seems that the Jains were
right some 7 centuries BC. Evolution does move in cycles. We start as spirit
and descend into abysmal materiality, only to be reborn as spirit once again.
We shall see. Or at least, some of us will.
Evidently, I’m
old-fashioned. For me, both, men and women are much more than a pieces of meat
designed to sate each others animalistic desires. Hence, my concept of romance
is different. Below, an example.
Marvin Clark, a man as shy as he is retiring, assumes a cloak of
invisibility to protect himself from vicissitudes of everyday life. The only
escapes he enjoys are into the inner worlds of his own making. Then, a
beautiful woman enters his drab reality. Suddenly, the protective ramparts
Marvin erected so carefully begin to crumble. Will she set him free?
A few blurbs
from some 5-STAR reviews on Amazon.
I loved it!
Heart Warming!
Profoundly Moving
Beautiful Love Story!
Romance and Self Discovery!
Fantastic characters and
story!
A classy read, fresh as
they get!
Unlike any love story I've
read before!
A Classy and Wonderfully
Written Love Story!
And many more…
Let me know if you like it or,
better still, say so on Amazon…
Reviews
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