Cool Stacy, congratulations on being a father, I'm sure it's a wonderfu; feeling.
I purged exactly 10 years ago when I took a new job and moved across the country. I thought I was too intelligent to engage in such nonsense. I re-entered the cd'ing world 9 months ago. Guess what? I don't regret a bit of it. Now I handle it in a much smarter way.
The reality is that when one forms an interest in cd'ing , it never truly goes away. What happens is, when one tries to experiment with clothes at a young age, the experience becomes permanently branded into one's psyche. These experiences get permanently tattoo'ed onto one's brain. It doesn't make a difference whether the reasons are gender expression, rebellion, sexual gratification, or you just like the way the clothes & the package looks esthetically. You can run away from it, but it will never run away from you. Your dog or cat will never have this problem because they have to small an imagination and collective memory, they just act on instinct.
The fact is that the glorious human imagination, and your collective memory, will always play a role in your wants and needs. The last thing anyone wants is their creative imaginations to be stifled. Do you really feel comfortable putting constraints on yourself?
I laud the male population that takes no interest in CD'ing...as long as they are understanding of us. But I don't want to live a day in their shoes because I would simply go nuts.
As country music outlaw icon Waylon Jennings once sang "I've always been crazy but it keeps me from going insane".
