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- Newsgroups: alt.backrubs
- Path: sparky!uunet!tmc!michael
- From: michael@monitor.com (Michael Johnson)
- Subject: Re: Preferred Gender
- Message-ID: <Bxs917.Evs@monitor.com>
- Sender: michael@monitor.com (Michael Johnson)
- Reply-To: michael@monitor.com (Michael Johnson)
- Organization: Monitor Company / IE
- References: <1e0smmINN9h2@cat.cis.Brown.EDU>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 00:22:18 GMT
- Lines: 19
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- In article <1e0smmINN9h2@cat.cis.Brown.EDU> ST201434@brownvm.brown.edu (jude)
- writes:
- > Excuse me, I just want to make sure I'm getting all this right...
- > When I originally posted my question, I honestly did not expect all these
- > wonderful confessions of men admitting that yes, they are homophobes.
-
- What you are doing is forcing your same-sex comfort on other people by
- vilifying their personal feelings--Dan K. did not say anything about
- male-male massage being _wrong_. He was exposing his personal feelings, and
- you simply couldn't resist bashing him to make your point. Thanks.
-
- My opinion (which no one else need share) is that massage from a friend is
- different than massage from an acquaintance because there are already
- emotions between friends which are intensified by intimate physical contact.
- My relationships with male friends are mostly based on intellectual
- companionship, and intimate contact would feel inappropriate. One could go
- on and on about why I feel this way about my male friends, but that would
- have nothing to do with the topics of this newsgroup. Suffice to say thatfor
- me, massage from another male is okay, but not from a close male friend.
-