The baby looks interested! But you know you're getting old when your reaction to the kid with the video game would be to knock it out of his hand and snap "pay attention, you uncivil brat".... I have encountered too many students with mobile phones in the classroom.
Re the procreation thing, it is now almost unbelievable that married couples were, less than a century ago, supposed to give up sex after the menopause, not because they'd stopped enjoying it but because, in the words of the then bishop of Southwark, "it must cease after the natural period of child-bearing [...] if you relax the idea that intercourse has any other purpose behind it except the procreation of children, you are bound little by little to give the whole situation away [...] it seems to me that you open the door to a lowering of the whole idea of the union between the man and the woman". This was in evidence to the National Birth Rate Commission of 1915, a year when you'd think he would have had more to worry about than whether middle-aged people were illicitly enjoying themselves.
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Date: 2008-06-18 06:17 pm (UTC)Re the procreation thing, it is now almost unbelievable that married couples were, less than a century ago, supposed to give up sex after the menopause, not because they'd stopped enjoying it but because, in the words of the then bishop of Southwark, "it must cease after the natural period of child-bearing [...] if you relax the idea that intercourse has any other purpose behind it except the procreation of children, you are bound little by little to give the whole situation away [...] it seems to me that you open the door to a lowering of the whole idea of the union between the man and the woman". This was in evidence to the National Birth Rate Commission of 1915, a year when you'd think he would have had more to worry about than whether middle-aged people were illicitly enjoying themselves.