Tangled webs

Shagging married woman is ideal. They have no illusions about what is going on and are in it for all the fun reasons. They are mature, non-psycho and non-clinging. And they usually have a kind of savvy that is rare here.

But they also have husbands who, no matter how many mistresses and hookers they themselves may be shagging on the side, are likely to react homicidally if they find out what you’re doing with their “property”, and even if they refrain from cutting or having you cut into little pieces, still have recourse to laws that treat such coupling as a criminal offence.

Hearing these kinds of stories day in and day out, and the many so-called massage parlors, barbers, “business-trips” to Thailand, etc., I am shocked every time a Taiwanese tells me how foreign men are all so “hua xin” and prone to extra-marital affairs, and that “very few” Taiwanese men would do that … what kind of delusion are people living in here? In exasperation, I’ve taken some of my friends on a walk down the street where I live to count the number of above-mentioned massage parlors and barbers … their only response is “Oh” … yet they’re still not convinced. Talk about living your entire life with blinders on … :unamused:

Right, I forgot. We are all law-abiding citizens (as are all the Taiwanese). Anyway, I was just musing…I never said I actually did anything like that… :blush:

Spot on.

Did they say those places are only for foreigners…? :unamused:

The great and very wise Benjamin Franklin also recommended having affairs with older, presumably married women.

"Old Mistresses Apologue" [Letter, June 25, 1745]

[quote]My dear Friend,

  I know of no Medicine fit to diminish the violent natural Inclinations you mention; and if I did, I think I should not communicate it to you. Marriage is the proper Remedy. It is the most natural State of Man, and therefore the State in which you are most likely to find solid Happiness. Your Reasons against entring into it at present, appear to me not well-founded. The circumstantial Advantages you have in View by postponing it, are not only uncertain, but they are small in comparison with that of the Thing itself, the being married and settled. It is the Man and Woman united that make the compleat human Being. Separate, she wants his Force of Body and Strength of Reason; he, her Softness, Sensibility and acute Discernment. Together they are more likely to succeed in the World. A single Man has not nearly the Value he would have in that State of Union. He is an incomplete Animal. He resembles the odd Half of a Pair of Scissars. If you get a prudent healthy Wife, your Industry in your Profession, with her good Economy, will be a Fortune sufficient.

  But if you will not take this Counsel, and persist in thinking a Commerce with the Sex inevitable, then I repeat my former Advice, that in all your Amours you should prefer old Women to young ones. You call this a Paradox, and demand my Reasons. They are these:
  1. Because as they have more Knowledge of the World and their Minds are better stor’d with Observations, their Conversation is more improving and more lasting agreable.

  2. Because when Women cease to be handsome, they study to be good. To maintain their Influence over Men, they supply the Diminution of Beauty by an Augmentation of Utility. They learn to do 1000 Servies small and great, and are the most tender and useful of all Friends when you are sick. Thus they continue amiable. And hence there is hardly such a thing to be found as an old Woman who is not a good Woman.

  3. Because there is no hazard of Children, which irregularly produc’d may be attended with much inconvenience.

  4. Because thro’ more Experience, they are more prudent and discreet in conducting an Intrigue to prevent Suspicion. The Commerce with them is therefore safer with regard to your Reputation. And with regard to theirs, if the Affair should happen to be known, considerate People might be rather inclin’d to excuse an old Woman who would kindly take care of a young Man, form his Manners by her good Counsels, and prevent his ruining his Health and Fortune among mercenary Prostitutes.

  5. Because in every Animal that walks upright, the Deficiency of the Fluids that fill the Muscles appears first in the highest Part: The Face first grows lank and wrinkled; then the Neck; then the Breast and Arms; the lower Parts continuing to the last as plump as ever: So that covering all above with a Basket, and regarding only what is below the Girdle, it is impossible of two Women to know an old from a young one. And as in the dark all Cats are grey, the Pleasure of corporal Enjoyment with an old Woman is at least equal, and frequently superior, every Knack being by Practice capable of improvement.

  6. Because the Sin is less. The debauching a Virgin may be her Ruin, and make her for Life unhappy.

  7. Because the Compunction is less. The having made a young girl miserable may give you bitter Reflections; none of which can attend the making an old Woman happy.

8thly and Lastly They are so grateful!!

This much for my Paradox. But still I advise you to marry directly; being sincerely Your affectionate Friend.[/quote]

[quote=“Omniloquacious”]

But they also have husbands who, no matter how many mistresses and hookers they themselves may be shagging on the side, are likely to react homicidally if they find out what you’re doing with their “property”, and even if they refrain from cutting or having you cut into little pieces, still have recourse to laws that treat such coupling as a criminal offence.[/quote]

I’d say the odds of getting caught are pretty low, especially if the husband is busy screwing around. Women are pretty good at covering their tracks when they screw around outside their marriage. Just don’t always go to the same hotel, don’t let her know too much about you (where you work, etc. Remember you’re there to screw, not form a quality friendship) Shag away. Of course, my above comments are only for a parallel universe where screwing around wouldn’t be a criminal offence.