{"id":82,"date":"2002-08-12T16:43:00","date_gmt":"2002-08-12T16:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/?p=82"},"modified":"2002-08-12T16:43:00","modified_gmt":"2002-08-12T16:43:00","slug":"afraid-of-sex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/2002-08\/82-afraid-of-sex","title":{"rendered":"Afraid of Sex?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another thought that came to me upon my reflection of my weird mood this afternoon:<\/p>\n<p>Could it be that I&#8217;m <b>AFRAID of SEX<\/b>?<\/p>\n<p><!--more how's this for a theory?-->I&#8217;ve always been what I consider to be a Gentleman, especially when it comes to dealing with Ladies and Other Women. I&#8217;ve also never been aggressive in any of my relationships, preferring to let them pursue me. After all, it has been drilled into my head that <i>&#8220;No means <b>NO<\/b>!&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>In moments of retrospection, I realize that  I can never seem to get &#8220;the timing&#8221; right: either I come on too strong and she runs away in horror; or I am <b>too much<\/b> of a Gentleman, and the woman ends up being &#8220;nothing more than a friend.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Oh, I know what all the parts are and where they&#8217;re supposed to go&#8230; I just don&#8217;t seem to get to the application of theory!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another thought that came to me upon my reflection of my weird mood this afternoon: Could it be that I&#8217;m AFRAID of SEX?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}