Kaj_Sotala comments on Dark Arts of Rationality - Less Wrong

136 Post author: So8res 19 January 2014 02:47AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 18 January 2014 07:12:45AM *  4 points [-]

If you don't enjoy the company of members-of-your-preferred-sex, what do you want a relationship for (that you couldn't also get from one-night stands or even prostitutes), anyway?

(Possibility of having children in the future?)

Comment author: Kaj_Sotala 24 February 2014 07:00:37AM 2 points [-]

Someone could e.g. enjoy the company, but be so desperate for a relationship with intimacy that any non-intimate interaction with potentially interesting people would be a painful reminder of what they were missing out on. (By "intimacy", I don't mean just sex, but also things like trust and a permission to be open with your feelings, hold hands, kiss in a way that mainly denotes affection rather than desire, etc.)

Comment author: [deleted] 01 March 2014 03:48:10PM 1 point [-]

I see.

I assumed you meant e.g. men who like to act misogynistically when among other men and find it effortful to not do so around women.