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It's really gratifying when something I've been saying for a very long time is affirmed by science or philosophy.

For instance, good giving game, GGG, to be good in bed, to be giving of pleasure at times without an expectation of an immediate return,

and to be game for anything within reason.

That does not mean you have to do whatever the fuck your partner wants you to,

but within reason, kind of up for sexual adventures, game for anything within reason.

I've been saying that for years and the science is rolling in, Amy Mews and Emily Impat have a new study out called

Good Giving End Game, the relationship benefits of communal sexual motivation.

Communal sexual motivation being science speak for good giving in game, communal sexual

motivation. We're going to have Amy on the show soon to talk about what she's discovered

researching the whole

GGG concept. This weekend, I had another moment of, oh, yeah, thanks. I've said that for a long

time and gotten grief for it. But hey, and this isn't science. This is philosophy catching up with me.

Clancy Martin this weekend writing in the Sunday review section of the New York Times has a piece.

He's a professor

of philosophy at the University of Missouri, Kansas City, and the author of Love and Lies has a

piece called Good Lovers Lie. I have always said that relationships are not depositions, that you

don't have to answer everything truthfully, that sometimes the most loving thing

that you can do for someone is look them right in the fucking face and lie your face off.

I don't think it's okay to deceive people routinely.

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