Sometimes it's really tough to come up with a thread topic that hasn't already been bludgeoned to death on this board, so just for shits and giggles, I thought I'd try this one (note that some of the reference info here I pulled off of
http://www.personalitypage.com/info.html)
Ever wonder what's really behind our impulse to monger? Sure, there's all kinds of possible reasons - our evolutionary niche to "plant our seed" as many places as possible, a higher than normal testosterone level, frustration with gringas and U.S. sexual mores, or just plain "because we can".
But maybe there's a little more to it than that. Some of us may already be familiar with personality type theory, as first developed by Carl Jung and later expanded upon and popularized by Isabel Myers and Katherine Briggs. The "Myers/Briggs" theory of personality posits that every individual has a primary mode of operation within four categories:
1. our flow of energy
2. how we take in information
3. how we prefer to make decisions
4. the basic day-to-day lifestyle that we prefer
Within each of these categories, we naturally "prefer" to be either:
1. Extraverted or Introverted
2. Sensing or Intuitive
3. Thinking or Feeling
4. Judging or Perceiving
The combination of our four "preferences" defines our personality type - of which there are 16 distinct possibilities. So for instance, if you're Extraverted, Sensing, Feeling, Perceiving, you're an ESFP.
So now I'm going to put on my (very) amateur psychology hat, and postulate which of these types is most likely to be a monger....
Category 1: Introvert or Extrovert
Our flow of energy defines how we receive the essential part of our stimulation. Do we receive it from within ourselves (Introverted) or from external sources (Extraverted)? Is our dominant function focused externally or internally?
Given how many drunk loudmouths you see cavorting around the Del Rey on a typical evening, you might at first thought assume mongering is an extrovert's game. But less apparent are a couple of factors that more apply to an introverted orientation: 1) Not having the natural gregariousness to easily approach women, so preferring a situation where the cards are already stacked in our favor, and 2) Being more comfortable with the temporary time commitments of PFP; i.e., by "paying them to leave" we have more time to replenish the energy reserves with the "alone time" we require than would normally apply in a committed relationship.
So on balance, I say the Introvert is the more likely mongerer.
Category 2 - Sensing or Intuitive
The topic of how we take in information deals with our preferred method of taking in and absorbing information. Do we trust our five senses (Sensing) to take in information, or do we rely on our instincts (Intuitive)?
When on the prowl for poon, we may try at times to think with our "big heads" and intuit from various non-verbal or other cues the type of experience we're going to have with a particular chica. But let's get real - when deciding whether or not to pull the trigger, what we mostly respond to is what our senses tell us on a purely visceral level - the exposed cleavage, the smell of her perfume, the soft touch of her exposed thigh, seeing how her ass fills out those skintight jeans, the brush of her hand across our already protruding bulges...
Sensing over Instincts on this one.
Category 3 - Thinking or Feeling
The third type of preference, how we prefer to make decisions, refers to whether we are prone to decide things based on logic and objective consideration (Thinking), or based on our personal, subjective value systems (Feeling).
Quite frankly, the "Feeler" guys are the ones that usually don't stay mongers for very long. In other words, for long-term success, you need to have sort of a cold, hard, calculated appreciation for the cost/benefits of the game - and be satisfied with just that. The feelers are much more likely prone to fall for the poor chica just "trying things out" in a desperate effort to feed her four hungry hijos and care for her terminally sick abuela - and then, in the throes of their new-found infatuation, mail out those monthly checks to their special "novias". While the same novia of course continues trolling the Del Rey seeking out more "Feelers" to add to her list of beneficiaries...
Thinkers win here in a landslide.
Category 4 - Judging or Perceiving
This category is concerned with how we deal with the external world on a day-to-day basis. Are we organized and purposeful, and more comfortable with scheduled, structured environments (Judging), or are we flexible and diverse, and more comfortable with open, casual environments (Perceiving)?
I've heard this one described in even more basic terms as Judgers being those oriented towards work before play, while Perceivers think in terms of play before work; which at its most base level might be described as hedonism. Certainly there are those of us who may push the "hedonism" envelope a little further than others, but on the whole, you would have to say most mongers are probably more prone in this direction than the population at large.
Perceivers definitely on this one.
So there you have it - your ideal monger personality type: an ISTP.
Oops - that's me...
wow, I'm and EITP... but I LOVE pu*sy, and the more the merrier, and I get bored with just one...
PLUS I hate being tied down... And I love hanging with multiple chix, and who can blame me for wanting HUGE ORGIES where I'm the only male, or where males are a minority?