Fantasy

Fantasy
Should I go here? Probably not. I was thinking of the movie Peggy Sue Got Married. Do you remember the movie? Directed by Francis Ford Coppola, and starring Nicholas Cage and Kathleen Turner. They all did a great job. Kathleen Turner is in a coma (I believe) and in her coma she goes back in time and relives her life. In real life her childhood sweetheart turned husband is cheating on her with a younger woman. She knows about it and they are facing divorce. In her dream she relives the more happy times with her boyfriend who she now knows she will eventually marry. So she decides, what they heck? "I will not wait until marriage. I will have sex with him now."

I think Hollywood writers love this kind of scenario. It's fantasy sex. It's sex with no consequences. There were several movies with mermaids turned to beautiful women. They were free fantasy sex to the lucky men who encountered them. I'm sure there are plenty of other situations I cannot recall now.

Well funny thing about changing history. It isn't so easy. When she propositions her boyfriend he freaks out. Cage has a great quote here, "That's a guy's line, Peggy Sue! That's a guy's line!" I just love dilemmas like that. Peggy Sue figures "What the heck?" I'm going to marry this guy and have sex with him in the future. This is not cheating really since we are destined to be married after high school. She is reliving her life but she knows the future. There is a funny line about an Edsel.

I remember high school and college dating a bit like the Cage character did. I would try to get a girl to go further with me after a date but truly expected, almost hoped she would say no. Somehow, weirdly, I felt it was my obligation to try. Yes, it was objectifying a girl. A girl saying yes would have freaked me out. This was quite a bit like fantasy. If a girl had tried to proposition me I would have freaked. I would not have had to say no or yes. Did that make me a tease? I imagine a lot of girls had me figured out.