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- Newsgroups: soc.bi
- Path: sparky!uunet!psgrain!hippo!shannon!concave!vashti
- From: vashti@concave.cs.wits.ac.za (Vashti Galpin)
- Subject: Re: Why I read a.s.a.r. (was: For Non-Abused Skeptics)
- Message-ID: <vashti.727614720@concave>
- Sender: news@shannon.ee.wits.ac.za
- Organization: None at all, I used it all up
- References: <1993Jan17.205855.11476@dcs.qmw.ac.uk> <C10tJ8.HD0@demon.co.uk> <1993Jan19.135641.20454@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 11:12:00 GMT
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- In <1993Jan19.135641.20454@midway.uchicago.edu> orc@sybase.com (Orc) writes:
- > ... The subject has, as you may have seen, been
- >brought up several times, because some of us, even the promiscuous
- >ones, do have reservations about the level of affection one would
- >find at parties. Bailing out is understandable, but distressing,
- >because there are surely enough soc.bi readers who don't care for
- >massive pdaing to show up at the party and make most of it a
- >conversation-friendly place.
-
- I find the reason why I get quite uncomfortable in the presence of
- massive pdaing (or even not so massive) is I feel curious and want to
- watch (I guess this is called voyeurism), but there seem to be
- conventions that say this is not done; and I can understand that the
- people being stared at may feel a little awkward (I guess if they don't
- it's called exhibitionism :-). I could well imagine myself watching
- for a while, seeing the dynamics, understanding what I am feeling,
- learning how to decline unwanted affection subtly and then deciding to
- get involved (if this is an option; there is always this nagging worry
- that I won't be welcome) or maybe not. But I don't know if the space
- exists for this.
- ____
- \bi/
- Vashti, who has almost, almost finished her thesis and \/
- is thinking about the rest of her life.
-
-