Maybe there’s just something wrong with me that I don’t think about “mating” with every individual I pass, which seems to be what Meyer is implying here. I think you’d be a little too distracted to be thinking about sex all the time, and even then, humans can control themselves, so it can’t be that bad. How much of a nympho is Meyer that she thinks the sex drive in humans is THAT strong? I mean, sure, it’s a strong drive in us, but she says she’s “ never seen or heard of their equal“, when I’ve heard of a few species with higher sex drives than us…and I don’t know how it could be so difficult to “ conquer the mating instinct” when you’re in the middle of war and the occupation of a planet. No, wait, maybe Wanderer should go one step better and GET LAID!! Yes, sex is the solution to ALL LIFE’S PROBLEMS, so how has this not been brought up before? I’m so very confused by this section. But who knows maybe she’s right, and it is a good point that it would keep Wanderer from focusing only on her problems with Stryder, at least.

It’s less likely that she hates social interaction.

She reasons it out that Stryder would be bored if Wanderer socialized because she gets bored when Wanderer teaches, but I’m not sure that’s a sound correlation, because Stryder may just really hate history. Surely social interaction would bore Stryder into submission, because everyone hates social interaction, even if she did just say that human hosts need it. Maybe they took a nap for a few hours, and then came back to it, and that’s why they’re “ no closer to an answer than before”.Īnyway, Kathy makes a new suggestion that perhaps Wanderer doesn’t have enough friends (since she has absolutely none and doesn’t speak to anyone outside of her work), so she should get some. I’m not really sure what they’ve been talking about, though, because the first thing mentioned in this chapter regarding Wanderer’s problems is the exact same thing they left off on last chapter. So Wanderer is still in therapy at the beginning of this chapter, and the assumption is that she’s been going through everything with Kathy for a few hours by this point.

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