Do old people enjoy kissing or making out?

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Or I guess people who've been together for more than 5 years or something--how do you muster up that anticipation & desire anymore? Or do you? I'm guessing not. Doesn't this just give the lie even more to the virtues of monogamy? Are the pleasures that supplant makeout sessions worth the sacrifice?

― carbon (carbon), Monday, 18 July 2005 02:44 (eighteen years ago) link

How old ARE you?

― Jimmy Mod Is Sick of Being The Best At Everything (ModJ), Monday, 18 July 2005 02:46 (eighteen years ago) link

Yeah, seriously.

I guess monogamy offers no rewards that might outweigh the thrill of kissing someone for the first time.

― Super Cub (Debito), Monday, 18 July 2005 02:50 (eighteen years ago) link

Very enlightening, thanks

― carbon (carbon), Monday, 18 July 2005 02:51 (eighteen years ago) link

Carbon, you're so stoopid I bet you never make it to my age.

The answer to the question is "yes."

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Monday, 18 July 2005 02:51 (eighteen years ago) link

yeah when you get past a certain age you morph into some kind of monster that hates kissing and doesn't have sex because other people think it's so "gross, ew, old people having sex?"

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Monday, 18 July 2005 02:52 (eighteen years ago) link

So do your parents MAKE OUT is what I'm asking. Jesus people I come from a broken home HELP ME UNDERSTAND OLD PEOPLE

― carbon (carbon), Monday, 18 July 2005 02:56 (eighteen years ago) link

Didn't you see Cocoon?

― Orbit (Orbit), Monday, 18 July 2005 02:58 (eighteen years ago) link

I have no idea what my parents do. But I AM AN OLD PERSON AND I MAKE OUT LIKE A BANDIT.

Jesus, isn't there like a special burlap bag and deep river for teenagers?

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Monday, 18 July 2005 02:59 (eighteen years ago) link

Old people only enjoy mowing the lawn at 6:30 on Saturday morning and golf. Oh, and CBS family dramas.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Monday, 18 July 2005 03:02 (eighteen years ago) link

pssst! Carbon! I slept with a 55 year old!

― Orbit (Orbit), Monday, 18 July 2005 03:04 (eighteen years ago) link

HIGH FIVE DUDE!

― Jimmy Mod Is Sick of Being The Best At Everything (ModJ), Monday, 18 July 2005 03:05 (eighteen years ago) link

Look, old people, don't get defensive. I'm just trying to learn how not to become bored of people once you learn all their tricks.

― carbon (carbon), Monday, 18 July 2005 03:06 (eighteen years ago) link

Well, I'm already bored with you...

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 18 July 2005 03:08 (eighteen years ago) link

In all seriousness, keeping the romance in a longterm relationship does seem to be a problem for a lot of people. Here are a few scenarios that seem common:

1. Couple learns how to push the right buttons. Sex is gratifying but maybe not so passionate or romantic.

2. Couple works to maintain the romance and sex is sometimes passionate, sometimes not so much so.

3. Couple has no romance and little to no sex.

4. Couple maintains the same level of attraction and passion throughout relationship.

― Super Cub (Debito), Monday, 18 July 2005 03:12 (eighteen years ago) link

This thread is about kissing though. It just seems like it's too subtle a pleasure to work without a surprise element.

― carbon (carbon), Monday, 18 July 2005 03:16 (eighteen years ago) link

Thank God I never have to make out with you.

― Jimmy Mod Is Sick of Being The Best At Everything (ModJ), Monday, 18 July 2005 03:16 (eighteen years ago) link

Make out with me instead - I guarantee I'm a better kisser.

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 18 July 2005 03:18 (eighteen years ago) link

*faints*

― Jimmy Mod Is Sick of Being The Best At Everything (ModJ), Monday, 18 July 2005 03:19 (eighteen years ago) link

disgusting

― carbon (carbon), Monday, 18 July 2005 03:21 (eighteen years ago) link

carbon = http://staticfree.info/graphics/comp%20nun.jpg

― Jimmy Mod Is Sick of Being The Best At Everything (ModJ), Monday, 18 July 2005 03:23 (eighteen years ago) link

making out is so under-rated compared to sex

― t0dd swiss (immobilisme), Monday, 18 July 2005 03:55 (eighteen years ago) link

haha! what a funny question!

so today my husband turns 30, I just turned 30 as well, not all that old but maybe it seems that way to a teenager. We've been together nearly 12 years though. IT JUST KEEPS GETTING BETTER. For real, no qualifiers. We kiss all the time, I have a feeling we're a little notorious in our peer group for it. And yeah, nothing's quite like that first dozen times you kiss someone, but that feeling gets replaced by something at least as awesome. When you know that someone's there for you no matter what, when someone gives you amazing unconditional support and love and you truly know it, it provides this amazing foundation for all your other emotions.

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 18 July 2005 08:19 (eighteen years ago) link

it look like they do!
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― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Monday, 18 July 2005 08:49 (eighteen years ago) link

well that didn't work.

― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Monday, 18 July 2005 08:50 (eighteen years ago) link

world's oldest couple

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 18 July 2005 09:12 (eighteen years ago) link

one of my favorite teenage memories is catching my 80-year-old grandparents in a makeout session one afternoon. there IS hope.

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Monday, 18 July 2005 09:29 (eighteen years ago) link

Favourite?

― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Monday, 18 July 2005 09:41 (eighteen years ago) link

Snogging?

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Monday, 18 July 2005 10:18 (eighteen years ago) link

Carbon, do you have some weird geriatric fetish?

― nathalie's body's designed for two (stevie nixed), Monday, 18 July 2005 10:28 (eighteen years ago) link

i must admit, seeing too geriatrics ardently kissing on a recent dentures adhesive advert did make me squeamish. part of me was cheering them on, part of me was wincing

― dahlin (dahlin), Monday, 18 July 2005 10:41 (eighteen years ago) link

on the oxford river walk yesterday we saw this awesome old couple, well i did, i think they didn't really register with the others though i tried to explain. they were proper old, you know, moving creakily and slowly, slightly bent over, holding each other up. they'd obviously made an effort dolling themselves up for their sunday afternoon walk, he with snow-white freshly-combed hair and a gold broochy thing clipped over the top button bit of his shirt (have no idea what this was but it was v highly polished), her head-to-toe in scarlet and magenta and her hair pinned up carefully, everything crisp and ironed. as they walked past us he was leaning down towards her ear and saying in a slow tarry voice "i remember..." but i didn't catch the rest of the sentence - they weren't moving as fast as we were. they were so perfect they almost made me cry. i have no idea if they "make out", but what they had looked like something really worth having.

― emsk, Monday, 18 July 2005 11:01 (eighteen years ago) link

darby and joan, who used to be jack and jill...

― jody heatherton (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 18 July 2005 11:07 (eighteen years ago) link

*Visit the anniversary thread*

― pepektheassassin (pepektheassassin), Monday, 18 July 2005 12:55 (eighteen years ago) link

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