Beauty of the Booty Call
Boomers didn’t invent the booty call – we politicized it and called it “Free Love.†But in these complicated, emotional baggage-laden times, we hear that sometimes when a girl wants a guy, they don’t need a long-term reason why…or why not. Hey, Dan, let’s wham bam, Thank you, Ma’am. We’re not talking about married folk, here. Random hookups for those people are still called the same thing – adultery. But we’ve all heard the story of the lady coming off a long-term relationship or marriage who just feels more desirable and gets her pilot light lit after a fling. Then there’s the hard-bitten woman who resolves to lust ‘em and leave ‘em. Does she end up feeling powerful or pitiful? Do most women still leave a part of themselves in the morning? What seems to work the best is when two lonely unattached people with a lot in common like each other enough to lust but don’t need to take it further – the fabled “friends with benefits.â€Â A bottle of wine, something sexy from Netflix, and some microwave kettle corn – a recipe with no strings attached. But if your joy in the boy hankers unrequited for the ever-after, maybe you’d be better off with a toy?