{"id":11786,"date":"2012-05-31T13:02:51","date_gmt":"2012-05-31T05:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=11786"},"modified":"2012-05-31T13:07:07","modified_gmt":"2012-05-31T05:07:07","slug":"an-education-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2012\/05\/an-education-1\/","title":{"rendered":"An Education (1): Happen Only Once?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11788\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/130.jpg?resize=174%2C236\" alt=\"\" width=\"174\" height=\"236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/130.jpg?w=193&amp;ssl=1 193w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/130.jpg?resize=71%2C96&amp;ssl=1 71w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 174px) 100vw, 174px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>From the movie, &#8216;An Education&#8217;:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jenny:<\/strong> David, if tomorrow night does happen, it&#8217;s only ever going to happen once.<br \/>\n<strong>David:<\/strong> Why will it only ever happen once?<br \/>\n<strong>Jenny:<\/strong> Because the first time can only ever happen once.<\/p>\n<p>(She loses her virginity to him later.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>David:<\/strong> It wasn&#8217;t too uncomfortable?<br \/>\n<strong>Jenny:<\/strong> Not after the first bit. It&#8217;s funny though, isn&#8217;t it? All that poetry and all those songs about something that lasts no time at all.<br \/>\n<strong>David:<\/strong> Yeah.<\/p>\n<p>Not that abstention from sex is useless, as it is in fact very useful if one wishes to cultivate deeper physical and mental contentment, but virginity itself is a strangely overrated concept. This is somewhat the Buddhist perspective too, albeit indirectly, as the Buddha never praised it as a prize to cling on to, to be bashful of losing. The truth is, most, if not all of us, have already lost it countless times in our past lives.<\/p>\n<p>Virginity is probably overrated partly because sex itself is overrated. As Jenny realised, the &#8216;bliss&#8217; from it is fleeting in nature, unsubstantial despite all the high expectations and great anticipations prior. Virgin sex is interestingly usually both pain and pleasure, the flavour of Dukkha (dissatisfaction).\u00a0Don&#8217;t mistaken this article to mean\u00a0promiscuity is alright though, as the third precept of abstaining from sexual misconduct should be upheld.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the movie, &#8216;An Education&#8217;: Jenny: David, if tomorrow night does happen, it&#8217;s only ever going to happen once. David:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[453,445],"class_list":["post-11786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-expectation","tag-sex","wpcat-26-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}