Take a Heartland Trip
Where, Love, Lust, and Sex
Knows no age. Or age is plus.
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by Joe B. Today, Thursday, February 14, 2002 – Saint Valentine’s Day, when friends have a chance to either deepen or ruin near perfect platonic relationships. I learned a little about a St.Valentine, like Lupercalia:"Feverish" Festival Roman celebration of Lupercalia, a festival of eroticism that honors Juno Februata, the goddess of "feverish" (febris) love. Annually. Early Christians got into it and as usual saw mainly the lust and Then, for the next twelve months, participants were to emulate the ideals represented by the particular saint they'd chosen. You know after a few years of this it went stale and was forgotten. Keep Erotic content we’re only human and our libidos must be fed in both flesh and faith. But that’s plain old me. The Church selected a single saint to do battle the pagan goddess And since Valentinus had been martyred on February 14, the Church could also preempt the annual February 15. The fly in the ointment was Valentinus himself: was a chaste man, unschooled in the art of love. The "Spin", making a chaste Saint appeal to lovers the Church may have "embellished" a bit to make the chaste Saint more appealing to lovers, the Church may have "embellished" his life story a little bit. Since it happened so long ago, records no longer exist. But if it didn't happen this way, it certainly makes for a better. According to one legend, Valentinus ignored a decree from Emperor Claudius II that forbade all marriages and betrothals. Caught in the act, Valentinus was imprisoned and sentenced to death for secretly conducting several wedding ceremonies. While imprisoned, the future Saint cured a girl (the jailer's daughter) of her blindness. The poor girl fell madly in love with Valentinus, but could not save him. On the eve of his execution, Valentinus managed to slip a parting message to the girl. The note, of course, was signed "From your Valentine." Yes, there is more to (post St. Valentin’s story but that’s up to you readers. I want to thank [me2u.com/LoveLore/Valentine] website I remember a book of Science Fiction entitled "Immortals" and male and female characters cope with their gift, curse, genetic accident, affliction, or blessing. One of a Cro-Magnon living now because of some unique genetic quirk that made him immortal and last of his species among modern humanity. The other is about love and what happens when a mortal and an immortal mix romantically. The woman is a fetching 32, the man 367 definitely a May/December romance if one I haven’t heard of. Its not the young woman who’ll have to leave the 3 century plus that has to leave but the young-old geezer along with other people able to take drugs or through gene tinkering to extend their life’s. But in this case the woman’s genes cannot except life extension, it works but not as well as for her lover, she ages slow but not as efficiently as the old guy lover with centuries more experience than her, because he’s learned how the process worked, and was genetically able to take improvements. As improvements are made he also improved with slower, healthier aging. There’s a point when the guy or girl separate but in this tale the old guy who still taking his extension shots stays with his aging lady because he really loves her "til death does us part." She is the one leaving because the widening gap in their ages mainly hers now that she looks to be older. What has all this to do with St. Valentine’s Day? All I ‘gotta say is there will be a reckoning for couples when Life Extension really kicks in for both men. Imagine 60, 70 year old men and woman looking half their age and young people with their natural youth not able to compete because its not about frail, fleeting, youths in lust, love, and quickie sex but mature love ‘n lust where experience wins out because youth is transient but the young-senior population aren’t buying the ads magazine’s, TV’s, the net, or radio killing the money making day. When people have been around a few centuries one might grow other interests than obvious fleshly delights and if still lively and healthy being an old graybeard woman or man won’t mean a shortage of partners they’ll just be young and inexperienced or older and vastly more knowledgeable. I would like to live a few centuries as a bodybuilding, Tai Chi, Also, at so great an age one’s ego cannot be shattered by any words of distain because I’ve lived through rough times and role with the flow. Its younger folks who will have to deal with head’s flutter and whims of love’s fickle arrow in the groin/ and hearts of women and men in passions fire. Because if true love is a soulmate able to leave return and be themselves. Give a few centuries of healthy life I think solid, true, marriage-to-death love will last because by then all the petty, selfish As for others switching partners, coming back is another options. For a special few if their soulmate is too old, too young, or dead- waiting, experimenting, experiencing, life before their reincarnation will be a daunting new way lost love returned. Whatever happens we must rethink Valentine’s Day Forever. What do you think life extension will do Valentine’s Day and other holidays? Who knows, a few of us might live to experience both question and answer first hand. Bye, have good love lives people. |