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Hm.  This is interesting, actually.   I get the revulsion at grubbiness, but have you ever noticed that one identifying characteristic of the predatory pedophile is fastidiousness?  A too-squeaky-clean look?  Think about it.  It might be the defining characteristic!

Another interesting question! 

For a woman, perhaps more so than for a man, and for unfair reasons, I am thinking that this is a more freighted question.

A question for the ladies: Do you tend to have some sort of sobriety benchmark, or test, that you subject yourself to, after which (however willing you might be under the circumstances) you just won't? 

This is interesting territory to me, a man for whom this is all moot and has been for a very long time.   I am thinking that because of societal norms, women are more likely to wake up deeply regretful than men are.    Possibly I am wrong about this and would like to hear thoughts on this for the next chat.  But I am thinking a young man who might awaken beside someone who might not meet his usual criteria, would more easily chalk it up to understandable male behavior, whereas women would beat themselves up.  

Perhaps I am an old coot and this has all changed.  Tell me.

Okay, I am just going to say this, without elaboration, and walk away.   Drunk men are often impaired in the sack in certain ways, but I believe some women know that sometimes drunk men, impaired in some ways, get VERY hungry.

But what is wrong with the  "Hey, I'm a lawyer or a journalist or a librarian,  and I'm smart and funny and hot and self-possessed but I'm not performing for you and certainly not ACTING for you, and I don't know if you're good enough for me to waste my time on anyway" look? What's wrong with THAT look, which has the virtue of not being pathetic or postured?  I like that look in a woman, because it's not a look.   It's who she happens to be.

My brother learned at 19 when he secretly bought a car, without my parents' permission.  He met the seller on the street, the payment was made, the keys handed over, the seller departed, and my brother looked down and thought "Why are there two brakes?" 

He learned on the way home.    Very very difficult lesson, involving much lurching.  He had it by the time he got there, and parked several blocks away. 

My answer to you is that it's possible, but if you are simultaneously learning with steering-wheel-on-the-right -- no. 

I'm with you on Julia Roberts -- same lip thing -- and also on Barbara Feldon.  Rowr.

When I was seven I was really into Annie Oakley.  Now THAT was a hot lady.