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- From: s900881@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Nitro)
- Newsgroups: alt.backrubs
- Subject: Re: Preferred Gender
- Date: 16 Nov 1992 05:11:31 GMT
- Organization: RMIT Computer Centre
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- jelmore@nyx.cs.du.edu (Jay Elmore) writes:
-
- >[whole previous article deleted, cuz I'm lazy.. :D]
-
- >On the subject of cross-gender backrubs, I have a good friend of mine (a
- >guy) who gives me neck massages occasionally. While I don't mind, I find
- >that backrubs, massages, etc. require a level of trust and intimacy that I
- >find hard to form with guys; OK, so I'm a latent homophobe! ;)
-
- I agree with it being tough to develope the trust that would allow close
- physical contact with a bloke. I'm reasonably openminded, (as I've had
- a reasonable amount of contact with homosexuals), about homosexuality;
- but this doesn't necessarily help. Let me explain better.
- I feel that backrubs etc. are to relax the resipient, for me this would
- require me to trust the person giving me the rub, enough that I let
- down my guard. I have been *hit on* by blokes and it is hard to deal with.
- I would have hesitations about, getting a backrub from a bloke to avoid
- reoccurances of such incidents. The blokes I know, that are strictly hetro,
- so I can trust them in that respect, aren't interested.
- Women aren't as threatening, even when they're *hitting on* you, which
- occurs less often anyway.
-
- >But seriously, I agree with the implied cultural taboo against intimate
- >contact between members of the same sex. I might as well crucify myself
- >further and risk being labelled a sexist by saying the I don't think many
- >men can establish that level of intmacy with any sexual connotation, while
- ^^^^ (Don't you mean without)
- >women can. Go figure...
-
- Yeah, I think Jay's got his head on straight.
-
- >I just like giving and geting massages from women... OK, I don't date much!
-
- Same here, even in a nonsexual rub (I confess to prefering the other, but
- it's not always offered)
-
- >Jay (=
-
- Nitro
-
- I don't date, I just find the right woman and stay with her :-) until I find
- out we're not right for each other, mourn :-(, then find a different right
- woman and stay with her. :-)
-
- I'm not concerned with another person's opinion of me, I have a high enough
- opinion of myself, for the both of us. ;-)
-
-