January 26, 2004 Love is gentle, love is kind. Lust is sweaty and sticky.

Dear Ken! What is the difference between Love and Lust? ANDRIANI2

Dear ANDRIANI2, Let's compare and contrast, shall we? Love comes from the heart, lust comes from the crotch. Love is warm and tingly, lust is tingly and hot. Love is blind and lust is blinding. Love is caring for an infirmed loved one, lust is pushing that ball and chain down the stairs so you can get back to screwing like weasels. Love is emotion and lust is the motion. Love is gentle, love is kind. Lust is sweaty and sticky. Love is Ken!, lust is Ken! Ken!

Yo Kenny boy, I am a junior in high school and I think I can already see either the makings of a total asshole or a lonely undersexed pathetic man. I have not been that lucky in love, except in situations where it is easy to lie, or at least exaggerate. that is where I see my asshole streak coming. All of my intimacies in these situations were consensually short term, but still, I wasn't completely truthful with them. What is the deal with lying to get some play at places where you know it won't be a relationship (like a couple weeks at summer camp or a week long academic convention)? My problem in places where I can't lie is that I can't talk to girls without my vocal chords being directly governed by my cock. The things I say are absolutely lewd sometimes and I am a complete hornball when I am with any girl all the time. How do I stop this? I am pretty smart and not too unfortunate looking (I am a bit overweight) but I still can't seem to not repulse a girl. Is this normal? Dirty D in the Dirty South

Yo, yo DD in the DS!, How about this? You're away on these trips, you're around attractive women your own age, you're looking for some action and you figure you have nothing to lose so you lay it on strong and come on like Doctor Smooth. When faced with someone who not only knows you but what you look like in gym class and at lunch and all about your family and friends it's hard to have the same nothing-to-lose Doctor Smoothness action going on. The nice part about maturing is that it becomes easier to be Doctor Smooth even under pressure and Mother Nature moderates that hornballitude that seems to run your life at the moment. Stay on target, DD, and don't let your lies get bigger than you are. Ken!

Hi Ken! I'm a 23 yr old girl..very happy with life , and i get along with all kinds of ppl..but there's one thing that upsets me alot is that i'm 23 and never had a B.f all my life! What's even more strange is that where ever i go ppl always have this impression abt me saying that i'm a friendly person (both guys and gals) they also say that i'm a pleasant and very likeable person (even my close friends say that)...apart frm that i'm always teased with a lot of guys be it at college , work place or hometown and what's more even strange is that everyone calls me "the chic" or the babe or "hot". But i don't think that looks is everthing or that looks can make a person it's how genuine u are..and how beautiful u are frm the inside and i feel that no person is ugly coz God's made everyone beautiful. Also I'm not a shy person at all i even have noticed that when talking to guys they show an interest in me..but.. no one has asked me out.. ? sometimes i wonder is it that i've done something wrong in my past life (or bad karma) that i'm now punished for it? Seriously...coz whenever i think abt this issue it takes a toll on me.. I'd be more than grateful if any you could advice me as to why i still don't have a boyfriend. Thanks 23, cute and single

Dear 23, cute and single, I don't go for that everyone is beautiful shit. I don't go for that God made everyone whatever shit, either. Just like everything else in this dimension except, perhaps, binary numbers, people inhabit vast continuum from stunningly beautiful to revoltingly ugly, whether it be inside or out. I also don't go for the "it's how genuine you are" crap. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for honesty but I seem to be in the minority. Most Americans seem to want to live in some kind of surreal self-delusion where the truth is as easy to change as the channel on television. Bad karma? Bad breath? No. How about asking a guy out yourself? This is the twenty-first century after all. If you don't roll the dice you can't break the bank. Ken!

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