in retrospect… » polyamory, is it for you??

because of the basically Catholic upbringing of Pinoys — which, in itself, is already bad enough — we were brought up that sex is a bad thing [no, it’s not!!], that it can only be used for procreation, that we can only have one — and only one — life partner, that, once married, we are committed to this person “till death do us part”, and that we cannot have more than one relationship — sexual or otherwise — with anyone else anymore… because of this very strict upbringing, men most specially, hide their “other” relationships from their girlfriends or wives for fear of reprisal from them and from the community they belong in… bigamy and polygamy comes into mind, then… but then again, these references only reflect states of marriages…

enter polyamory…

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Empress Maruja is a Spam?

You put a comment–a decent comment–in a blog, and you realize that it is being subjected to moderation.
You thought that it is okay.  After all, every blogger has the option to moderate comments to make sure they are not spam. 

But what if you see that your comment is yet to be published, while other comments after you begin to appear like crazy?

You thought there was some sort of a mistake, so you comment again for a follow-up.

You check again several hours later and see that the comments continue to appear in that blog, but your two comments have yet to see the light of publishing.

Would you get angry?

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