A housemate I had back in the day was taking a test for nursing school and had to answer a question on the four necessities of life. She put food, water, air, and sex, but not in that order. I ask you, what’s wrong with her answer? If we put the restrictions on food that we do on sex most people would starve to death.
i don't know...we put as many restrictions on food as we do on sex IMO...how much to eat, when to eat, whom to eat with, where to eat, what to eat, reasons for eating, cultural baggage when eating, presentation of food, ritualization of feeding, food as part of religion, etc etc etc!
ReplyDeleteif we put the same restrictions on air though, as we do on food and sex, we'd all die of asphyxiation.
Is it completely wrong to throw "booze and the consequent lack of inhibition" as #5?
ReplyDeleteProbably. I'll just go with "Shoes."
Roselle I grew up in a family where food was the very next thing after God. I remember my sister in law watching the rest of the family sleep off the effects of an enormous meal and saying, "They might as well be drunk in a ditch." I know you have a point, but no one ever questions the basic need for eating, no matter how ritualized it might be.
ReplyDeleteLiLu! how could I forget shoes! I am ashamed of myself. I'm thinking the booze might just give us license to do what we really want. I never slept with anyone drunk that I would not have sober, but I might have been a bit more shall we say, adventuresome. Wait, I think that's exactly what you said.
That reminds me of a young woman in a college psychology class who failed to grasp the difference between primary and secondary needs.
ReplyDeleteMONEY isn't a primary need? she says.
Well M@ you do understand her confusion. WIthout money she couldn't get any of her primary needs met. You know, shoes, manicures, clothes, the basics.
ReplyDeleteWhat was the question?....
ReplyDeleteActually, in my 12th grade psychology class, we did that word association thing where you write down the first thing that comes into your mind when given a word.
"Sex," the teacher said, surprising us. But my response surprised me more: "Death."