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Posted by John on July 22, 2007, 6:05 am, in reply to "Attraction to *Risk* - NOT Disease, NOT Death!" I must confess that after reading your earlier comments I goggled your name and read your essay about how you chose to start smoking, which has led to some new thoughts for me about my attraction to smoking. As you have written, smoking is a risky and dangerous activity, which fits well with the bad girl image. I particularly enjoyed reading about how when you started smoking that you had become a bad girl. I think the smoking/bad girl connection is one aspect of my attraction. Your essay also got me thinking about another aspect. In your writing's you talk about the pleasure that you receive from smoking. This is something that fascinates me and furthers my attraction. What I think I am coming to understand is that part of what excites me about a woman smoking is that she is undertaking a risky behavior for pure pleasure. Wow, I had not thought of this before. I am also thinking that the image of a woman smoking or watching a woman smoke from afar, allows me to participate as a viewer as she undertakes this risky pleasurable activity without taking any risk of my own. This is a concept I think I need to think a little bit more about. Thanks again for helping me work through these feelings. I must warn you though, I think that as I have read more of your writings I have become curious about the pleasures you receive from smoking and your attraction to smoking woman.
Thanks for that clarification.
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