It is not an easy thing for men and women to cohabitate. We shall discount immediately those few weeks called “honeymoon“, and focus instead on what remains of the sweetheart (in the immortal words of Lou Costello) after the “nerve has been killed“. The appeal of sex is great and its rewards are high. Most of what we are prepared to suffer and endure together as couples traces back to what we give and take when we’re in bed. Ironically, the Nirvana we might enjoy if only we managed to remain sexually gratifying to each other eludes us… because we cannot. Men tire, grow weary and succumb. Women disillusion, detach and dissipate. The perpetual imminence of sex that pervades the early-stage relationship becomes, with time, a gulf of “likely not”… and the frequency of copulation may decline to once in several months. Not good. But this news is very old. What may be new is our capacity to recognize simpler, more direct answers to our basic needs outside the impossibly-complex rigors of conventional relationships. Let us (as singles, and marrieds and whatevers) entertain contractual arrangements with those prepared to offer services, reciprocate in kind… or simply understand.

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