The Essence .. Do You Dare?

You KNOW you want it, don't you?


Made this one for no one in particular, though I have Simone, Victoria, and Jennifer in mind for the model, where like a real illicit drug, you think you have the upper hand, but in the end, you are a slave to the cravings, and just gotta have it.

It also begs the question of "What exactly IS femininity, and what makes someone a woman?" There is of course the whole physiological definitions, along with all sorts of hormonal, emotional, intellectual and even natural modes of what is female.

It can be so complex that we often define it as what masculinity isn't, giving a broad range of things that are contrary to what we think is feminine. We even do that in the case of sissies, which extend to an often times ludicrous hyper-femininity. They can act like females, but they aren't, and their true gender is brought out as part of the illusion, putting them somewhere between man and woman.

I guess it doesn't help that what femininity is has changed as time continues on. Just when you think you can understand a woman, any woman (!) the rules get fuzzy and evolve. Women don't even understand women .. though they are still much closer than men will ever be. Some things are innate apparently, but I am even more sure that much is learned, however subconsciously.

Reminds me of an old joke:

A man was walking along a Florida beach and stumbled across an old lamp. He picked it up and rubbed it, and out popped a genie.

The genie said, "OK, You released me from the lamp. This is the fourth time this month, and I'm getting a little sick of these wishes so you can forget about three... You only get one wish!"

The man sat, and thought about it for a while and said, "I've always wanted to go to Hawaii, but I'm scared to fly, and I get very seasick. Could you build me a bridge to Hawaii so I can drive over there to visit?"

The genie laughed and said, "That's impossible!!!

Think of the logistics of that! How would the supports ever reach the bottom of the Pacific? Think of how much concrete -- how much steel!! No, think of another wish."

The man said, "OK, I'll try to think of a really good wish."

Finally, he said, "I've been married and divorced four times. My wives always said that I don't care and that I'm insensitive.

So, I wish that I could understand women, know how they feel inside, and what they're thinking when they give me the silent treatment. Know why they're crying, know what they really want when they say "nothing" and know how to make them truly happy."

The genie said, "Do you want that bridge to be two lanes or four?

I had the picture in a caption setting for a few weeks now, but hadn't figured out for sure how I wanted to play it out. The GF and I went to a high end store (well high-end for me, Lord and Taylor) looking for a certain cologne that isn't carried in many places. I thought back to that experience with the sales ladies appealing to women's vanity in pushing them to buy the fragrances they were selling. What if they told ALL the truth behind their sales pitch? Perhaps being more enigmatic might help them sell a bit more product? Either way, that experience inspired me to flesh the caption out this way .. and no, they didn't have the cologne in stock, only online, and I'm not about to buy something without smelling it first!