Sex is Overrated

Got your attention, didn't I?
When I was about 16 Dad and I were driving down the road in Connecticut and he says to me "Sex is overrated, Rob". That stands out as a memory. Hmm... I don't really remember too much of what preceded that comment or what came after it. But a young man wonders what his father has to say about such things. Unfortunately due to custody arrangements we didn't get much face time on the subject... or discuss it much at all. It hadn't really come up much the previous summer and I only spent one more summer with him after that (and without my girlfriend that summer so maybe that is why we stayed off the subject). Then next I was to spend any chunk of time with him I was almost 20. Sorta out of the birds and bees range, yeah? So anyway occasionally I tried to decipher what he meant by that. As a parent I can say with some confidence that the lessons we teach most of the time are not doled out in a single complete serving but may build incrementally. Maybe that was just the start of a dialog that never really got started again or certainly never wrapped up in any definitive way. Parents also teach by example and so here is my interpretation of "Sex is Overrated". Although he had more than his share of women leave his side, I still feel that in most respects Dad treated his partners well and tried his best to understand them and do right by them. So maybe what he was saying is that sex is only a small part of a good relationship... and that it tends to get more attention than it deserves, perhaps at the detriment of developing other sides of a relationship.
Whelll... maybe that is what he was saying or maybe just maybe I've read too much into our very brief birds and bees talk and what he was really trying to say is... Boy don't you go and get your girlfriend knocked up now, ya hear?! Adem you had even less exposure to Dad as you were coming of age.. but maybe you two had a talk about such matters.... you can share it on or off line if you wish.