The true women
lovers like Casanova and Don Giovanni loved women simply because they were
women. Both believed in quantity rather than quality; did not differentiate
between the blonde and the brunette, the small and the tall, the slim or the
statuesque. As long as she was a woman, they fell in love with her at the drop
of a pin.
If one is to believe
Don Giovanni, over his life-span he had met and loved 640 women and girls in Italy, 231 in Germany, 100
in France, 91 in Turkey, and 1,003 in Spain.
The more picky lovers
are different.
Did you know, for
example that the famous American author of ‘The Great Gatsby’ loved women’s feet? He
literally wanted to throw himself at the feet of a woman who had beautiful feet
- no matter who she was and where she came from.
Byron, apparently,
was a collector of women’s hair, so presumably that cut out women who lacked
hair, or didn’t have any to spare.
But, here’s a
shock. That mathematician and philosopher Rene Descartes, at one stage, appears
to have had a thing for cross-eyed women, This has resulted in that joke, ‘Gentlemen
prefer blondes, philosophers prefer cross-eyed women’.
However, this peculiarity,
in the long run, led Descartes to formulate his monumental theory of free will.
How did he get from crossed-eyes to free will? I guess you need to be a philosopher to work that one out.
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