# Desperate Housewives 12/19 \[ Unboxed SPOILERS \]

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [December 20, 2004, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/desperate-housewives-12-19-unboxed-spoilers/280731 "2004-12-20T03:09:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2004, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/desperate-housewives-12-19-unboxed-spoilers/280731/41 "2004-12-22T13:58:08Z")

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But Bree did humiliate her husband at the dinner party by announing that he cries after he ejaculates.

He left the table immediately. I wonder what that was all about?

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**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2004, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/desperate-housewives-12-19-unboxed-spoilers/280731/42 "2004-12-22T15:15:08Z")

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IANADom, but aren’t domination and humiliation different dynamics?

As for Bree’s humiliating Rex at the dinner table, there’s a big difference between a mutually consenting private sexual encounter involving humiliation and springing a humiliating anecdote in a non-sexual and very public setting.

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**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2004, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/desperate-housewives-12-19-unboxed-spoilers/280731/43 "2004-12-22T17:01:02Z")

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Oh, I agree, **Otto**. My question was on why he cries after.

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**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2004, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/desperate-housewives-12-19-unboxed-spoilers/280731/44 "2004-12-22T17:35:13Z")

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Well let’s see, there was a moment in an old Richard Dreyfuss/Amy Irving vehicle (yes, that phrase looks just as odd typed out as it sounded in my head) _The Competition_ (which actually I like) where Amy says something to effect of how after the first time she and Richard did the deed he cried and that this was a great compliment. So perhaps sex with Bree is somehow earth-shattering (and IIRC Rex said something once about how she used to be kind of a wild woman in the sack but her compulsive cleanliness now gets in the way; and then didn’t they show them trying to get it on in his hotel room until she was distracted by an errant burrito?) and Rex weeps like a baby, or sex with Bree is so deeply unsatisfying that Rex weeps like a baby.

Or maybe Rex is like me and his eyes water during and after orgasm and Bree misinterprets.

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**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2004, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/desperate-housewives-12-19-unboxed-spoilers/280731/45 "2004-12-22T19:53:59Z")

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> [@ivylass](#):
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> Oh, I agree, **Otto**. My question was on why he cries after.

Because he knew Bree was thinking about new drapes the whole time? “Oh, Rex-- Yes! That’s _it!_ An emerald-green ruffled valance with co-ordinating priscillas! Yes!” 😃

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