How to decipher lust

That’s just some lame excuse people with a self esteem issue use.
You hear it a lot from over grown high school girls that want to sleep around, but not feel slutty about it.
They figure kissing is committing so if you don’t kiss, you can’t be ‘sleeping around.’

I guess we all missed the memo!!

Maybe a thread all on its own.

It’s funny to me because it’s like this younger generation (I feel so old) skipped the whole petting/making out step and went straight into sex. So where I feel like kissing is just kissing and sex is intimate, they feel like sex is just sex and kissing is intimate.

There isn’t that much to tell.

I used to be a professional belly dancer. When you work in the entertainment business you meet a lot of other entertainers. Quite often I would be the ‘warm up’ act at a party and the strippers would come in after me and we would cross paths. I also crossed paths with clowns, jugglers, magicians, etc.

Some strippers never cross the line into sex, some do, some cross the line and then decide that is all they will do. It’s a small world, we all knew each other and we all tended to kind of look out for each other as well.

Several of the dancers went into escorting, several wanted me to work for them (no thank you), but I was friends with a number of them.

I used to answer phones for a dominatrix, and went on a few house calls with her. Even that experience isn’t enough to fill a thread.
That is a job where you can really make some money. She charged $175 for 75 minutes and you’d better bring a gift and it’d better be gold. I’m sure it’s a lot more now as this was 15 years ago. I could have easily booked her 10 appointments a day and still turned people away. Not a job I could do, for any amount of money, I think you have to be into that life style to do it.
It was interesting but not my thing.

This is somewhat how I feel on this subject. I would much rather have the sex than the kissing. But I’m a guy, maybe we all feel this way. I’ve never felt like kissing was a major part of any relationship I was in. I can’t help feeling there’s something a little odd about the OP and this discussion. The guys either using her or not, and I don’t really grasp how kissing is such an important part of it. Maybe that’s just me.

I’m the only one that was thinking halitosis?

Either “kisses my body” is code for oral sex, or this guy has some reason not to kiss your body right on the kisser. The issues others raised above are the more likely culprits, but it could just be a case of smokers breath and a shallow guy that is too nice to say anything.

I’m a relationship expert… I sure have tried and failed enough times to be. :smiley:

Thanks everyone && just for clarification purposes: My breathe is not a problem lol I’m a clean freak I always smell great he even compliments my “BO”(I don’t smoke and I work out a lot a very healthy person). He says I always smell so good like candy. We’ve gotten face to face even lip to lip but I can see he’s uneasy when things get really intimate between us so I back off. When we talk he says he doesn’t want me to get so emotional. But how could you not be emotional with a guy you’re in to. The girl he was with set him up to get robbed after a 3 year relationship almost a year ago. I guess that’s why I have hope that maybe he just needs time to recover. But I’ve realized that maybe I just can’t handle being just a “fuck-buddy”

Why would you want to?

Single and don’t want a lot of sex partners…

There is a much simpler way to achieve that goal.

You can sense that it’s unhealthy for your spirit. You can feel it in your bones, I’d bet. Once they have that stink on them it doesn’t come off. Part of you knows, he’s been showing you who he really is, all along. It’s time to acknowledge what you cannot ignore any more, he doesn’t want any more than benefits. And you do.

Let him go. Move on.

Good Luck!

Welcome to the board, OP! Sounds like you’ve got a real quandary there, but don’t worry: this board is packed with the Internet’s best and brightest, who’ve been there before and always have some helpful advice to offer, no matter what the problem! Not sure how you stumbled across our little corner of the cyber-world, you’re lucky you did and we’re glad to have you! :slight_smile: :cool:

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Okay, now you’re mocking us!
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There have been a lot of, erm,* interesting* OPs lately from people with October 2012 join dates. Just sayin’.

August vs October showdown.

Hey, don’t you dare disrespect September either!

Didn’t notice the join date. I appreciate you sayin’.