And as to Ranma succumbing to
hormones and kissing Nabiki and/or Kuno... Don't you

ever remember

letting your genitalia do the thinking and doing

something massively

stupid, like kissing the wrong girl (or guy, if

that's your bag. I

ain't judging) when you _knew_ no good would come of

it?  Doing

stupid, hormone-driven stuff it the stock-in-trade of

teenagers. God

knows i've done dumb stuff like that in the past and

lived to regret

it, but I don't think it's made me into a bad or

maladjusted person. I 

think. ~_^

Yup, done the dumb stuff.  Still do--I'm a slow
learner, I guess.  It's 
normal, and real--though again I maintain a stolen
kiss is somewhat 
different from what Nabiki did to Ranma in the shower.
 But the big 
difference is: I'm just some ordinary dude from a shit
north-Ontario 
town 
who's lived a very normal life.  I've never killed a
god to save a 
woman I 
love, nor cried to the heavens when I thought her
dead, nor felt the 
debilitating joy as despair is unexpectedly
transformed to relief... 
maybe a 
tight ass and the smell of perfume can overcome all
that, but I can't 
bring 
myself to believe it.  I remain far too much the
romantic, and maybe 
that's 
colouring my view of the entire story--it's a conceit
I'm willing to 
admit.

***I dunno Mike...I'd tend to agree with that old
saying women have "all men are dogs!"  Not fair, but
honestly I'd say that a lot of men do their thinking
with the wrong head...taking on your passing jibe...
our former Commander-in-Chief is a very good example. 
A rich, well-educated and religious man went and had
his way with the young (but ugly) intern.  NO I don't
think the equation is as simple as (horny man +
attractive woman = sex)...but everyone is
tempted...even married people and  young teenagers
aren't married, nor have the same weight of
responsibilities as a married adult.  

***Let's look at it this way...you're a young single
guy with a girlfriend, and this hot woman from your
office that you've been checking out daily comes on to
you in some private location.  Can you say with total
certainty that there could never be anything more than
a stolen kiss??  Maybe no sex, but fondling and
groping?

***Otherwise about the lack of time spent on Akane,
and lack of progress with Ranma... I'm in total
agreement with you.

J

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