Dear Woman:

You ask me how I can parade around in a group of men and women, undressed, and socialize with them, wearing nothing. Here -- let me draw you a picture.

It’s a circle: a simple, round, circle. Now I’m going to draw a line down through it. There are two half-circles standing up together. Now I’ll draw another line crosswise through the half circle on the right side. We now have half a circle, and a couple of quarter-circles. Now I’m going to scratch several radial lines through the bottom quarter-circle. Now we have a half-circle, a quarter-circle, and some circle segments. Get the picture? Now, I’ll explain this to you.

Each section of this circle represents the kind of attraction that I have for women. See that upper right quadrant? That’s the visual part of my attraction to femininity. Yeah -- 25 % -- not primarily -- not mostly -- not mainly -- just partly -- just 25 % or so visually attracted to you -- visually attracted to women in general because they do look feminine!

The other sections represent the other attractions that I employ. One section in the lower right quadrant shows how I’m attracted to women by sound: some voices and footsteps just sound more attractive. Or there’s smell. A whiff of hair, or the smell of your hands as you cover my eyes attracts me. Touch attracts me. And then whatever else attracts me: the idea of dancing, any fantasies, memories, or dreams: any other way that I might be attracted to a woman, or to you. So between these lines in the lower right-hand quadrant of this circle, each small section represents some other sense employed that attracts me to a woman.

What I see, sniff, touch, or imagine, can serve to attract me to a woman. The upper right quadrant, shows how much I am attracted to a woman just by seeing her. What I see is more strenuous than all these other senses combined.

So far, so good. I’ve looked back up over this explanation, and am satisfied that I’m not stretching the truth. Part of the reason I am attracted to a woman is that I can see her femininity, and part of the reason could be that I’m sensing her in some other way. Now for the main part of the attraction.

The main reason I am attracted to a woman is that I already have a relationship with her. Sure, there’s no way to deny that I am attracted because of how she looks, but by a long shot, the main reason -- the biggest reason that I am attracted to some woman is that I already know her! Somehow in our past, we have gotten acquainted, and that acquaintance, that part of our lives which we have shared: along with her appearance, her voice, her actions, her manners, etc., makes her attractive.

Most of my attraction to a woman is the relationship that I have with her. I could name some that I have worked with, a couple that I have worked for, and numbers of them that I’ve seen around in restaurants, crowds, classrooms, stores, offices, etc. -- they’re everywhere! (Okay, okay -- I may not know the names of these women) But now I want to give you five names just for demonstration purposes: Jane, Jean, Jan, Joan, and June.

Play with me with this idea for just a moment. I like Jane because she is such a good conversationalist. And Jean is smart. I have to bow to her intellect. She understands stuff -- she knows stuff, and -- well, I do like her. Jan is physical. She just might pat my butt or play with my beard. I cannot deny that I like that! So I like her. Joan is one good cook. I like sampling things that she has made. I like her because I like her cooking. And June: ah, June -- June is drop dead gorgeous. Talk about visual attraction. That’d be June -- the girl of my dreams! I like her. Now, maybe all these past relationships do involve visual attraction, but it’s not just the looks.

I just wish I could combine their qualities but I can’t. If I put Jane, Jean, Jan, Joan, and June in one room, and you, Linda, in another, and then have to make a decision: all the talking, intellect, touching, cooking, and charming, pretty much vanishes when I think about Linda.

Linda accepts me. Linda cares for me. Linda likes me. The other women have faded away, disappeared into the distance, have hidden behind the lines that I have scratched into that one small quadrant of the circle that we have just drawn so I could show you how all this works. I don’t see these women. I see you, Linda. If I start dreaming about the group, their images fade away, and your image forms the entire picture.

This is the relationship side of my attraction to women. This is the primary reason that I am attracted to you. You are lovely because you have feminine features, because you evoke sentiments that make me appreciate you, and because, mainly, mostly, primarily, principally, predominantly, largely, just about entirely -- because we have had a relationship. We have gotten acquainted through these years. I have learned to appreciate that you love me.

So now, please, do not think that I ever look at someone else the way I look at you. After all, I am masculinely addicted to curves! Certainly, dear woman, maybe I can’t help noticing them for some certain quality, but when I do that -- I can’t help thinking of you.

I love you.

Sincerely,

Your man

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