The Ramblings

I overlook Bushwick with nothing to write about. From a fourth floor window I am an overseer of the daily activities of certain organisms with whom I share a species with. They travel back and forth, coming and going towards and from places, to do or having just done things. These travelers exist for as long as they are caught by my line of sight. Their fate is unknown once they walk past.
ESPN is on in the background, it simply buzzes and I have no idea what is on at the moment. Instead of focusing on the television I am focused on focusing; I need to write something, anything.  I read a bit. At the moment it's Nabokov's Lolita. My mind wanders towards an imaginary conversation with a group of unknown faces in which I am attempting to defend Humbert Humbert, but another part of me defeats every point made by myself. I settle on agreeing that most adult males find females younger than themselves attractive. The most important nuance of the ordeal is that, unlike Humbert, there is a limit at around the age of sixteen, or, what we have come to know as that age when sexual maturity has been reached.
I am stating that my personal studies  find many adult males will unconsciously see a girl and view them as they would a woman. Once they realize the moral, or immoral, implications they simply drop the subject. This is the case with most adult males and it must be stated that some pursue further than others.
The deterrent keeping most adult males from females legally defined as underage is the sentinel known as society. For quite some time men across the world took girls as young as 12 as brides. Can it be that our ever changing society molds us to the point of dictating our sexual desires and preferences? This would mean that sexual ideals change according to societal pressures. If at some point in time men found pre-teen and teenage girls sexually desirable then the question of whether or not that has changed arises.
As a species we have gone from bands to tribes to chiefdoms to states. Every change is gradual and very few people have seen two forms of political organization in their lives. Other things such as fashion, entertainment, technology, and the human built environment, to name a few, change easily and rapidly without much resistance. But what about our sexual awareness? That is, sexual preferences, desires, and practices. Can something so innate as sex change completely according to societal standards? Entertainment, fashion, technology, and the man made world surely have. So, does sex, something as deeply rooted as our genetic code, change with the times or do we simply suppress them?

On another note, I have somehow become a dog sitter for the summer. It is quite strange how one can take on a job without ever accepting it.

- Alex