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Spring time: we all feel full of energy like a new born conquistador, and we are ready to meet strangers. And here you are; a beautiful female is coming out of nowhere boldly approaching you and starting up a conversation. She looks so young, attractive and submissive, and she is letting you know that she is interested. You are still careful but thinking. Yeah, thinking – a first step is done to lose your freedom.
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You might try to walk away, but by then, the hormones strike you in a split second. Your legs become weak and shaky, your vision is blinded, the feathers (or hairs, depending what is growing there – a sort of tragedy if nothing at all) on the top of your head are rising up; you just cannot take another step. You are in love; or you think you are.
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You turn around and listen to her. She keeps talking.
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You are so proud of yourself. She wants you. At least she makes you feel she does and you cannot imagine she could lie to you.
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Both of you take a long, romantic walk along the shore. You feel like a King. The Lord and the Ruler. You want the whole world to see what you just got.
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It does not take long for her to start seducing you.
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Now, at the last moment, you are still able to think. On one hand your imagination goes wild and you remember all these beautiful sights you saw before of others having a great time in the surf bubble bath (or seen in magazines that you were checking out when you felt lonely).
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These wild jumps your little cousin was performing in the front of you.
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But there is a price for pleasure. She might just trade the sex for a food. You have seen that before. Well, think about it as coming to a party with a caviar. It is an adventure feeding and mating with her at the same time.
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Some parties can be real wild when the other males are coming with bigger fish.
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On the other hand you still have a few weak memory flashes of what other male friends had to do for the females and what the females can do to the other males.
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You might try to run blindly away. Only to find out one more time that you are not yourself anymore and the powerful magnet down there is stronger than your free will. You will go down loudly screaming for forgiveness.
