To: yikes!izzy
Date: Friday, September 9—8:39 PM
Subject: Question
Isabel,
You have too many rules. And you wonder why people don’t want to get close to you. Are you this difficult on purpose? You’re lucky I’m so agreeable.
Okay, here’s my question, and it’s important and I really need a girl’s honest opinion. And don’t do your usual thing where you don’t even answer it and just start talking about yourself instead. Here goes: Do you think it’s unethical to ask someone out just because you’re lonely and you know she’ll say yes? Does that count as using someone? Would I be an evil, misogynist pig for going out with this someone and not resisting if things happen to move in the physical direction, even if I know there’s no way I’ll ever be interested in her for anything more than that? My body is telling me there is nothing wrong with this, but there is the unfortunate problem of my pesky conscience getting in the way. I blame my mother for that. I can practically hear her voice every time I fantasize about taking off Emily’s clothes. “Are you treating her with respect, Connor? Are you honoring her mind and her body?”
I don’t know the answers to these questions.
Horny and humble,
Connor
(PS: Have you ever thought that maybe sitting in front of your computer all the time will give you face cancer?)