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After Sarah’s affair with her teacher, after he leaves the school to save his marriage, she becomes an insatiable sex kitten, or an addict if you prefer, and it dominates her life. Jamie is a classmate and her best friend, a guy who always had a serious crush on her, seeing her as the love of his life. The excerpt below comes after high school; she is in college with a life that is always threatening to run off the rails. Jamie tries to settle her down and give her some security.
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“Thanks, Jamie-boy, but living with your family would totally kill my sex life.”
Jamie smiled, but in the tight, tense way that he did when he was frustrated. “Do you ever wonder if maybe your priorities are out of whack? I mean, really, Sarah, it’s just sex.”
That’s what Jamie didn’t understand: it was never just sex. Even the fastest, dirtiest, most impersonal screw was about more than sex. It was about connection. It was about looking at another human being and seeing your own loneliness and neediness reflected back. It was recognizing that together you had the power to temporarily banish that sense of isolation. It was about experiencing what it was to be human at the basest, most instinctive level. How could that be described as just anything?
-- “Taming the Beast” by Emily Maguire
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“Thanks, Jamie-boy, but living with your family would totally kill my sex life.”
Jamie smiled, but in the tight, tense way that he did when he was frustrated. “Do you ever wonder if maybe your priorities are out of whack? I mean, really, Sarah, it’s just sex.”
That’s what Jamie didn’t understand: it was never just sex. Even the fastest, dirtiest, most impersonal screw was about more than sex. It was about connection. It was about looking at another human being and seeing your own loneliness and neediness reflected back. It was recognizing that together you had the power to temporarily banish that sense of isolation. It was about experiencing what it was to be human at the basest, most instinctive level. How could that be described as just anything?
-- “Taming the Beast” by Emily Maguire
