Sunday, August 7, 2011

In praise of mistresses

One mans food is another man’s poison and vice versa, all of us are guided by an inner moral compass. Our earlier conditioning tells us that cheating or infidelity is wrong, we see only black and white, shades of grey do not form part our morality code. However with the onset of age we tend to take a more mature view of life.

Extra marital affairs are always looked down upon, and women bear the brunt of this, as they are viewed as home wreckers and temptresses. Even if you are happily settled with your partner, you can still be totally incompatible and have nothing in common with your partner. When you don’t have common interests, or intellectual stimulation, life can be boring, bordering on depression and the loneliness becomes unbearable.

Just like the duality that surrounds us, you can have a double life, with a partner who makes you happy, has everything you imagined. Some times one does not plan these things, it just happens and the glow comes back into your life. When you are happy your home becomes happy (till they find out). It is not just sex but sharing the world view from a different bed.
Under the guise of patriarchy, all life is dualized; women are also dichotomized, cut in two. There is the “good little” ovulating wife” who is supposed to be passive, cook, clean and bring up the children; it’s hard for her to be sexy after washing, cooking and cleaning the toilets all day. And then there is the ‘witch’ seductress, sensual mistress, dynamic, oozing sex out of every pore, sharing all his interests, but is castigated by society for creating happiness. Happiness should come first, everything else later. And any person who gives happiness cannot be bad.-Vinay-

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