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- From: weissman@netcom.com (Bob Weissman)
- Subject: Re: "Cheating"
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.011416.6712@netcom.com>
- Organization: The Ranks of the Unemployed
- References: <725616049.AA00762@tdkt.kksys.com> <1992Dec30.170528.16344@toontown.uucp>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 01:14:16 GMT
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- In <1992Dec30.170528.16344@toontown.uucp> ucda@toontown.uucp (Chris Andersen) writes:
-
- >I've had my fair share of sex, vaginal and otherwise, and I've enjoyed it.
- >But I've never completely understood what the big deal is. I've understood
- >the problems intellectually. But I've never had a corresponding emotional or
- >empathetic understanding. It's just a totally foreign concept to me to see sex
- >as anything really more then a basic biological function ranking up there with
- >eating, sleeping, and taking a shit.
-
- Whew. If you find taking a shit as satisfying as having sex, I pity you.
-
- The reason sex is more satisfying than the activities with which you compare it
- is that it involves intimacy with another person. I would have thought this was
- obvious.
-
- >I've often thought that the world might be a better place if people just had
- >more sex (and enjoyed it for what it is).
-
- Now there's a statement I can agree with.
-
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- -- Bob Weissman
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