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- From: muffy@anableps.berkeley.edu (Muffy Barkocy)
- Newsgroups: soc.bi
- Subject: Re: Gender-specific needs
- Date: 17 Nov 92 14:50:43
- Organization: Natural Language Incorporated
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- Message-ID: <MUFFY.92Nov17145043@anableps.berkeley.edu>
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- In-reply-to: rsr@soda.berkeley.edu's message of 13 Nov 1992 12:13:35 GMT
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- In article <1e065fINN4l4@agate.berkeley.edu> rsr@soda.berkeley.edu (Roy S. Rapoport) writes:
- >In article <MUFFY.92Nov10110212@remarque.berkeley.edu> muffy@remarque.berkeley.edu (Muffy Barkocy) writes:
- >->or I have wanted "sex in general" (*grin*), but I've never had this
- >->feeling of wanting the in-between "sex with someone of a particular
- >->gender."
-
- >I know the feeling ... part of why my sexual kinsey rating fluctuates wildly
- >most of the time ...
-
- The responses I've seen have all been of this sort...the idea that the
- level of attraction to men and women varies over time. In fact, this is
- what one of the first bisexual people I knew told me; he was sometimes
- mostly attracted to men and other times mostly attracted to women. This
- Isn't anything I have experienced yet, though, and it isn't the effect I
- was having, so I thought I'd to try clarify what's happening to me,
- since I'd still like to know if anyone recognizes this.
-
- I haven't experienced any change in how much I am attracted to men or
- how much I am attracted to women. Really, I have always just been
- attracted to individuals, and I am still just as attracted to each
- individual, regardless of their gender. However, lately when my mind
- turns to sex, I start thinking of all the attractive women I know,
- and it doesn't really seem to matter which of them it is. Usually, I
- will be most interested in a specfic person at any given time. This
- business of wanting any one of the set of attractive people of a
- particular sex is the new thing.
-
- Some time has passed now since my originally noticing the feeling. I'm
- starting to think now that at least part of it is "wanting to play with
- my new toy." It's been a year and a half since I first noticed being
- attracted to a woman, but less than a year since I first got involved
- sexually with a woman, so it's pretty new. It's not that I'm attracted
- to anyone solely because they're female, but they're still new and
- different, as a group, and therefore command more of my attention, just
- as any new individual lover does.
-
- I don't know how it is for most people (it seems to vary), but for me,
- my emotions are the same, and just depend on who the individual is - I
- haven't noticed any correlation with their gender at all. Sex, on the
- other hand, is different in various ways, including simply the way
- people's bodies feel. I don't prefer one to the other, and I don't
- *think* that I would normally want sex with one gender more than the
- other (well, I guess I might have preferences from day to day if it was
- sex-for-fun, but these days it's generally sex-for-caring), but I've
- done so little of one (with women) and so much of the other that the
- former keeps popping into my mind...*smile*.
-
- Oh, well...does any of that make sense? I should be programming,
- anyway...
-
- Muffy
- --
-
- Muffy Barkocy muffy@mica.berkeley.edu
- ~Weavers' fingers flying on the loom/patterns shift too fast to be
- discerned/all these years of thinking/ended up like this/in front
- of all this beauty/understanding nothing~ - Bruce Cockburn
-