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- From: tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode)
- Subject: Re: Okay, what *is* that view? (was: Re: Pre-Sex Contract)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.072114.20380@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- References: <Dec.8.09.55.58.1992.11253@net.bio.net> <1992Dec16.060012.6265@hplabsz.hpl.hp.com>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 07:21:14 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec16.060012.6265@hplabsz.hpl.hp.com> howeird@hpl.hp.com (Howard Stateman) writes:
- >
- >I suspect that the number of men obsessed with sex is a far greater
- >percentage of the population than the number of women obsessed with sex.
- >And the numbe of women who value intimacy more than sex is far greater than
- >the number of men in that category. If you accept this theory, then you
- >would also accept the generalization that men and women view sex
- >differently, on the whole.
-
- Hmmmm...I have a hard time reconciling this with the people of the female
- persuasion that I know--though men have a socialized tendency to use
- displays of feigned sexual aggression (commenting on waitresses' body
- parts, for example) as a means of jockeying for homosocial dominance,
- women generally seem to be more interested in the subject and in doing
- it.
-
- At the parties I go to, most of the time when largely male conversational
- groups form, they tend to talk about computers, sports, cars, and their
- toys; groups of women are more likely to talk about people and sex.
- Among the heterosexual couples I know, it's almost invariably the female
- member who complains more about "not getting enough" and that her partner
- is insufficiently lusty. Indeed, in the relationships I've been in, the
- sex drives of the women I've been involved with have steadilly ramped
- upwards with no sign of stopping as long as we were involved. (Fortunately,
- it's never been too hard to persuade me to cooperate.)
-
- Trygve
-
- --
- "Genevieve shouldered the small bundle which contained all that she
- owned and walked nervously but purposefully away from a life that had,
- at first seemed too good to be true: it had been more than she could
- ever have hoped for that the ruggedly handsome Count Falkenhausenmann
- would have asked for her--his maid and nanny to his four children borne
- to him by his beloved wife Griselda who had died years ago under
- mysterious circumstances involving a runnaway horse and a ladle--hand
- in marriage, but she knew that, though she had long loved him from
- afar, allowed her maidenly eyes to linger on his dark, brooding
- countenance and the chiseled scar that seemed only to lend excitement
- and mystery to an already compelling visage, she could never marry him
- for her honor would never allow her to accede to his exotic sexual
- demands--no, no matter how she much she longed for him, she simply
- wouldn't go down for the Count."
-
-