Let me start off by saying that Animal Chin, from Minnesota, the Mad Butchers, from Michigan, and Hot Stove Jimmy, from Good Ol' Chicago, each have a definite place on the Official Nate's List Of Good Bands (ONLOGB),and they're nice guys to boot. pick up whatever ya can by these ska greats. on to my column...

Is it wrong to look at other girls when yer in a relationship with one? i've been wondering about this recently. A friend of mine always gets pissed at her boyfriend because he reads porn mags ("reads." yeah right.)and likes to look at other girls. She always calls me to complain about how much of a pig he is. i tend to have the same response every time..."fucking A, it's 3 in the morning, i'm sleeping! leave me the hell alone!" Later when i'm awake and we talk about it, i usually take the Boy's side.

I really don't think she needs to get so uptight over his looking at other girls. he's not fucking them or otherwise being unfaithful, he just likes the way they look. besides, he's with HER not someone else, and has made it clear that he likes it like that. Just cuz a fella looks at another girl doesn't mean that he doesn't have a tremendous hard-on for the one he's with. Now i personally don't look at girls (very often) (and i truly do think that pornography is degrading to women), but i think the Boy has the right to look. i dunno. i just told her to chill out, that he's prob'ly just looking for fuel to feed the fires of his masturbatory fantasies, at which point my friend became quite offended and pointedly informed me that her man didn't need to jerk off cuz she was more than enough woman for him. Sure ya are, sugar.

Let me cue all you ladies in on a little secret here: the more ya give yer guy, the more the boy'll want. it's like cocaine, yer always concerned about yer next fix. the people who get it more have it on their minds more, trust me. of course, some people like me who flat don't get it at all for various reasons have it on our minds quite a bit too. (sex, not cocaine. well, i don't get either. oh never mind.) on a related front, i hear they're making strides with that new male birth control method. for those of you who haven't heard anything, the process involves injecting a certain amount of testosterone, the male sex hormone, into your ass every week, which lowers yer sperm count to the point where conception is said to be clinically impossible. from what i hear, the rate of effectiveness rivals that of the female pill. i think i'll pass though. i don't want to fuck bad enough to where i'm gonna get a hypo in the ass every week. (i hate needles, they give me the creeps. oh well. at least i'll never get really into heroin.)

*sigh* i guess i'll just continue to suffer in celibacy and keep on being teased by my gay friends (i don't CARE that pregnancy's not an issue for you! i LIKE not having sex, okay?!?! i LIKE the tension, OKAY?! so just LEAVE ME ALONE!!!!!) it doesn't matter anyway, i'll get by. you see the new Victoria's Secret catalog came out last week, and...

Nate Holdren



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