The hourglass analogy

I have always been under the impression that hourglasses were rather innocent. And when I look at one, which obviously is an infrequently occuring event, I see nothing more than an hourglass. Some bulbs of glass, some sand, some wood or plastic frame to hold it. Well, those days are gone now.

My lovely boyfriend and I were we were cooking, eating and hanging out last night. He took all the chances he got yesterday to interpret my words sexually, and doing some indecent gestures towards/against me, whenever an opportunity opened up. I did by no means mind, but I called him on it, and asked if the thought activity in his head were of the sexual kind the further away from last sexual experience he was. I suggested the sex thoughts were increasing linearly, or perhaps even exponentially with the time passed since last intercourse.

He did not approve of my analogy with a line in a diagram, instead he delivered the hourglass analogy;

"Imagine that the lower bulb in a hourglass being the entire thought capacity. The sand represents thoughts of sex, and the air (non-sand filled) space represents all other thoughts. When you've just had sex, the hourglass is flipped, and there is a lot of space for regular thoughts, and only few thoughts of sex. Then ever increasing with time, the sand (thoughts of sex) takes over more and more, until it all starts over again."

I have never heard of an analogy like that, and I am pretty sure it was new not only to me, but to the world in general. I strongly suspect he came up with the theory, right there and then, just off the top of his head.

He claims it is not only him, but all boys, and girls too, working according to this theory. He's quite sweet you know. And I think he is right, sort of. Just that all are not aware of the analogy, yet. I don't think the theory will make it into any psychology books, I am afraid.

But onto my blog, for sure!