Viagra, a few more inches and a healthy marriage

This post is gross but then life can be gross.

I always check the spam email in case there might be something in there worth reading in the spam folder like a magazine from my seminary.  And I still get those letters from around the world offering millions if I would just pay the shipping.  ButI mainly get adverts to help my penis.  There are a lot of ads that talk about wanting to sell me Viagra.  Interesting conclusion from the drug company.  It knows I'm male and in my late 50s so I must need Viagra. My wife gets it too.  She needs Viagra?

Then there is a lot of spam advertising that if I use their product my penis will grow 4 inches in a month.  Gotta wonder how I could walk around in pants with that thing in my briefs.

But the main message seems to be that sex is really all there is to life.  Personally I've discovered that even when I was much younger sex was not the key to a relationship.  Not that it isn't a lot of fun.  But you can't do it all the time.  Married life is more about the joy of communicating and having someone who will listen to me even when I babble on about things no one cares about but me.  My wife always listens when I come home all excited about a new Greek word I learned and the context of the word.  When I ask her if she actually cares she responds "No, but I care about you." Which is a blessing. 

Not that I don't enjoy sex but our culture seems to be obsessed with it.  Sex or beautiful near naked women are used to sell everything.  There used to be a billboard with a large beautiful blond in a very skimpy bikini and a very small can of beer down in the corner.  Also there were and are commercials that have a mostly naked woman draped across the front of a hot car.  The assumption about the beer commercial seems to be that if I get sloppy drunk a beautiful woman in a bikini will want me.  As to the car, one time after one of those commercials with the woman on the car I had the audacity (and stupidity) to say to my wife, "Hey, my car came with a missing part!"  When asked what that might be I I pointed to the beautiful blond.  I don't remember anything after that.  I was probably unconscious.

So having an affectionate and loving relationship in front of the kids is more important than having a sex life that would be at home in a porno movie.