"We have equated happiness in life with as many orgasms as you can possibly pack in."

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Raquel Welch: I think we’ve gotten to the point in our culture where we’re all sex addicts, literally. We have equated happiness in life with as many orgasms as you can possibly pack in, regardless of where it is that you deposit your love interest.

***

Raquel Welch: It’s just dehumanizing. And I have to honestly say, I think this era of porn is at least partially responsible for it. Where is the anticipation and the personalization? It’s all pre-fab now. You have these images coming at you unannounced and unsolicited. It just gets to be so plastic and phony to me. Maybe men respond to that. But is it really better than an experience with a real life girl that he cares about? It’s an exploitation of the poor male’s libidos. Poor babies, they can’t control themselves.

***

Raquel Welch: I just imagine them sitting in front of their computers, completely annihilated. They haven’t done anything, they don’t have a job, they barely have ambition anymore. And it makes for laziness and a not very good sex partner. Do they know how to negotiate something that isn’t pre-fab and injected directly into their brain?

***

Raquel Welch: I know it does, and I’m fine with that. I don’t care if I’m becoming one of those old fogies who says, “Back in my day we didn’t have to hear about sex all the time.” Can you imagine? My fantasies were all made up on my own. They’re ruining us with all the explanations and the graphicness. Nobody remembers what it’s like to be left to form your own ideas about what’s erotic and sexual. We’re not allowed any individuality. I thought that was the fun of the whole thing. It’s my fantasy. I didn’t pick it off the Internet somewhere. It’s my fantasy.

http://www.menshealth.com/best-life/raquel-welch

[msongs]

1. T&A queen remembers when she was hot lol nt

[thelordofhell]

2. Raquel Welch: Of course it was different when they were masturbating to me

[msanthrope]

7. I think you have won the Internets. I bow to you. nt

[snagglepuss]

3. .

[wendylaroux]

4. yes raqell

men do respond to t & a,how do you think you made millions? your singing or acting?

[Fawke Em]

6. She's not saying that.

She's saying that men of today need to be spoonfed a corporate version of what makes women attractive rather than falling in love along with the lust.

She was pretty (still is, actually), but there were certainly a lot fewer cookie-cutter women in her day. Now, all the actresses and female singers seem to look astonishingly alike and they mostly all look like a less "tarted up" version of a porn star.

[qazplm]

10. nah they were cookie cutter then too

just a different cutter.

I like porn (although I am more partial to amateur versions) but I also have a job, and I enjoy a deep relationship with another woman. They are not mutually exclusive nor are they the cause of anything. If someone has a hard time forming interpersonal, meaningful relationships it's in spite of porn, not because of it, they'd still have that problem if porn didn't exist.

Folks always want to complain about how things are worse now than before, when that's almost never true.

[Blue_Tires]

5. "We have equated happiness in life with as many orgasms as you can possibly pack in..."

Thirty-five and a half years I've roamed the Earth in this life, trying to find meaning, seeking that ONE answer...

Who knew that the ultimate wisdom would come not from a scholar, philosopher, historian or clergyman, but Raquel Freakin' Welch??

[hifiguy]

8. Well, I know why I had one of her posters

up on the wall of my room when I was 16.

[Uncle Joe]

9. This thread needs a theme song.

Thanks for the thread, Amerigo Vespucci.

[AnotherDreamWeaver]

14. and that one works...

[LanternWaste]

11. Comforting to know we often mature in allowing additional perspective with a growth in years.

Comforting to know we often mature in allowing additional perspective with a growth in years.

[The Doctor.]

12. She says that like it's a bad thing...

Okay, really... if there are so many people for whom this is true, then that would be sad.

Meanwhile, I gather I'm not the only one to point out that she kind of, sort of.... contributed to the whole 'masturbation' thing?

[thelordofhell]

13. If it wasn't for the lovely Raquel, Andy couldn't have escaped Shawshank

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