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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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The only straight women I've ever seen express an honest, self-derived interested in penises broadly have been "OMG I love penises so much and eat like, 30 dicks before lunch" marketed personas on reddit and the like who have Onlyfans links in their bios. These are the commercial entities that are skewing people's ideas how the genders feel about the issue.
Most straight female partners who perform the act regularly are mostly doing it for the emotional/intimacy connection, like watching their partner or doing it because they know their partner likes it but otherwise would be pretty ambivalent at best.
This is all fine, but men broadly have a very hard time reconciling and processing that their female partners aren't as into the visceral, genital-focused attractions as they are, and that's why this is always such a huge issue. Nobody wants to patronized or placated, they want to feel actually desired and men and women, for whatever reason, be it biological or social or whatever else, have different kinds of attractions.
In the old days we made this work by talking to each other and adapting to each other, nowadays people read all the discourse online even before meeting someone to be partner with and get too insecure or hyper-fixated on these differences before having a chance to learn how relationships even work. We were not really meant to read the insecurities and honest truths from so many millions of people we don't know, it fucks with our psyche in ways we will be studying for centuries.