Tuesday Evening: The Piece Fits Together
Alan Nafzger Connects the Dots Between Weight-Loss Drugs, Emotional Unavailability, and That Fondue Set
Diary of Alan Nafzger, Editor, The London Prat | Extended analysis via Bohiney Magazine
Tuesday Evening: The Piece Fits Together
I have been editing two stories this week that are, I now realise, the same story. Story one: Retatrutide is killing romance. The drug suppresses appetite. Appetite, it turns out, was doing a lot of work in the British domestic arrangement. Story two: Divorce Myths, including the fondue set, used once, now residing in the cupboard of mutual avoidance. The fondue set was the last shared appetite. The drug has eliminated the concept entirely. These stories are connected. I should have seen it sooner.
The Pharmaceutical Completion of the Marital Arc
A marriage begins with appetite. Appetite for the person, for the shared meal, for the future that the shared meal implies. The fondue set is purchased at the apex of this appetite – a specific, aspirational, slightly French expression of where the relationship thinks it is going. The fondue set is used once. The appetite recedes. The set goes in the cupboard. Then Retatrutide finishes the job. BBC Health coverage has confirmed GLP-1 drugs reduce food desire. They appear also to reduce the desire for the things that food represented. This is pharmaceutical completion of a process that the fondue set began.
I wrote this up. Eight hundred words. Best thing I have written this week. I sent it to the deputy editor. She replied: “Alan, this is about your first marriage.” I said it was about society. She said those things are not mutually exclusive. I said she was right. I published it anyway.
SOURCE: https://bohiney.com/
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