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Issue 01; July 1, 2002 Ask Boomer Al is the fun newsletter of BoomerJournals.com. If you don't want to receive it, we don't want to send it to you. Unsubscribe info is located at the bottom of each issue. _.·´¯) Contents (¯`·._ 1) This week's questions 2) What's up with this? 3) Boomer HA! HA! 4) Remarks from the peanut gallery _.·´¯) Questions (¯`·._ Issue 1; July 1, 2002 Dear Al … My boyfriend and I have been going for only a few weeks. I really like him but he’s starting to pressure me about sleeping with him. I don’t think I’m ready yet, I’m a virgin. I don’t want to lose him. I’m twenty one years old and this is the longest I’ve gone without a guy. Confused in Wisconsin Dear confused, You’re not confused really are you? You’re tempted. There’s a difference. First of all, based on today’s loose moral standards you have indeed done well to make it to twenty one as a virgin. There are probably a lot more of you than many will admit to. Your boyfriend has also taken longer than most guys to get to the point in this day and age. Based on that, he may be a virgin also and scared to death to be discovered by the guys. Sexual activity in the young does not equate to sophistication or knowledge on their part. I don’t know where young men actually got the idea that going out with a girl entitles them to sexual favors. Too many girls have given in and paid the price with a one parent family before they were ready. Would an accidental pregnancy interfere with a few things right now? If you lose someone because they can’t respect your moral standards you’re not losing much. You’re still very young. Perhaps you find yourself unattractive and haven’t dated all that much and now that you’ve landed a guy and you’d like to lock him in? I don’t know for sure, but I do know sex won’t maintain a relationship. Mutual respect and similar interests will do more actually. Raging hormones can be difficult to control at your age. I will tell you that I applaud your standards. You do not sleep with a man to keep him. If he understands your feelings and continues to push tell him to get lost. If he truly loves you he will wait for you to be ready. It’s your body and you have a lot more to lose than he does in this arrangement. Besides, in today’s environment I’d want to see some blood test data before anyone had their way with me … condoms are not foolproof … and the statistics for aids are on the rise again because some people foolishly think that oral sex isn’t sex. Thanks Bill. When it comes down to it … you’ll do what you want won’t you? Boomer Al suggests you go to Sexual Health for more information. Dear Al … I just graduated from high school and I want to go to college. My dad is a farmer and I’m the only boy. He’s not in the greatest of health and wants me to stay and help him on the farm and take it over some day. Please help! Torn Dear Torn, Is this a movie script or something? I can hear you calling Lassie in the background. Sorry. This can be a very awkward situation indeed. Let’s start at the beginning … have you even been accepted at a school and if you have can you pay for it? You made no mention of what you would like to do with your life. Do you and your dad get along? How big is the farm? Does he have employees? What does the rest of the family think about having to put up with you any longer? Ever heard of Shane? Anyway, I’m a dad. I had a small business and my son wanted to go to college. We had no money but we stretched to send him anyway. He partied instead of studying. He didn’t want it bad enough and he was too immature to have any clue what he really wanted to do. He just saw many of his friends leaving for school and he felt left behind. I stretched more than he did. I ended his school career abruptly for him. Today he will tell you he should have waited a couple of years to taste the real world a little first. That degree would look better than the beer did these days. I say if your dad needs you stay and help him. You’re a very young man. College is often wasted on very young men who are too immature to understand the value of a college education. Tell your dad you will stay and help him for a time but at some point he will not be able to rely on you any longer. You’ll need time to find out if farming is something you could really get into, like you don’t already know. You just want me to give you something to stick in dad’s nose. Sorry. Decisions are for adults. Life is tough as a farmer so I tip my hat to your dad. Free enterprise farming is the foundation of our free enterprise system. Once upon a time, everything in America revolved around farming. If you find you love farming at that level perhaps you and your dad can enter into a buyout agreement of some sort where you could own the farm. I don’t know how old your dad is or how serious his illness may be. These would of course come to play and I would seek legal counsel for guidance. Paying him to take over his business would be a way to provide for his needs and also ease you into business. Small farms are on the endangered species list in America. Corporate farming is big business and the small farmer basically lacks the holding power to compete. Depending on the location of the farm, farming may no longer be the highest and best use for that land. There may also be a neighboring farm or building contractor who has coveted your dad’s land over the years. Now if you say to me that you’ve been an honor student for the last twelve years and you have a scholarship in your pocket and you want to be a doctor, which could take ten to twelve years, but dad wants you to stay home and pick potatoes, I’d say dad who? Boomer Al suggests you visit American Farms ... to learn more about small farms. Just my opinion Torn … you’ll do what you want won’t you. Good luck. _.·´¯)What's up with this?(¯`·._ I feel a lot of the economic insecurity in the nation is being caused by the insider politics by the Dems to try to break President Bush's popularity. Watch the economy suddenly improve when the November election is over. Until then the Republicans should beware. My opinion. _.·´¯) Boomer HA! HA! (¯`·._ Lend me fifty. I only got forty. It's OK. You can owe me the ten. _.·´¯)Remarks from the peanut gallery (¯`·._ Are you some kind of conservative wacko or something? Not a wacko ... :) Have fun. It's later than you think. Al Member Ezine PA _.·´¯) General Info (¯`·._ Ask Boomer Al is an opt-in ezine available by subscription only. We do not use or endorse the use of spam. Your e-mail address is safe, and will never distributed for reason. 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