Serenity review rec

OK, it's not exactly a review, but some lovely sharp observations about said movie from ficangel.

So, you know, there's Big Gorram Spoilers in this link.

In other news: OW. I'd heated the pan for stir-fry this evening, dumped in meat and the oil leaped out and frakking bit me! I've got an impressive little scatter of blisters over the inside of my left forearm. I've run water over it and ice-toweled it for good measure, so it doesn't actually hurt much anymore, but it was an awkward fit to get my arm under the tap properly, now my frakking neck is seizing up. So, yes, woe is me. OW.

Men and sexual desire?

Right this moment, I'm listening to a radio program called Focus on the Family broadcast on SonShine FM (98.5). The program, as far as I can tell, is about sexual addiction. In a nutshell: men are hardwired by testosterone to want sex all the time (God made them this way!), and that therefore they cannot be expected to control that desire in such an eroticised society. The guy they're interviewing, the good Christian man who is helping all these guys fight sexual addiction says he has to look away in the cinema because he says he "cannot cope" with seeing a woman in a sexual context. And apparently, it's not God's fault for giving him all the testosterone, it's all culture's fault for being sexualised. They said that women live in a "haze and mist" of estrogene, and guys "live in a fog of testosterone", therefore women wouldn't get it.

How different are mens'/womens' sex drives, seriously? This is something I'm curious about. I first came across the idea (that someone genuinely believed that men got more horny than women) while talking to a Muslim guy (converted) who told me that women were emotional and were ruled by their emotions, men were rational and logical except when they got aroused where upon they immediately became... I don't think he actually used a word, but I'd take a stab at 'suddenly ruled by strong emotion'. Which was why it wasn't a choice for women to wear the hijab. Then again, this guy also thought it was perfectly rational for a woman to be stoned to death in Nigera because she had sex outside marriage.

I was going somewhere coherent with all this, but I'm in pain *and* curious, which is always a dangerous combination. Caution? To the wind! Any thoughts? studies? arousals? :D