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- From: gdb15@grebe.cl.cam.ac.uk (Guy Barry)
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- Subject: Talking about sex (was Re: Party Face, Net Face)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.145815.27594@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
- Date: 24 Jan 93 14:58:15 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan23.112220.16955@thelema.uucp> STella@thelema.uucp (STella) writes:
-
- >Well, not always. I still get teased, now and then, about the time I
- >walked up to a group of folks who were rattling on about hardware, and
- >said "oh, shit, _they're_ not talking about sex EITHER". But that
- >was, if I remember right, the BurgerMunch at which CBT was first
- >performed. (Lovely screams, simply lovely. Music to my ears.)
-
- Maybe I get intimidated by people talking about sex because the ones
- who talk the most often seem to use it as others use politics, or
- sport, or computers for that matter -- as a way of removing attention
- from themselves. I'm interested in the personal aspects of sexuality,
- just as I'm interested in the personal aspects of anything. But as
- things stand I'm not particularly interested in hearing about the
- mechanics of it, or about the pattern of people's sexual behaviour,
- simply because I've essentially no experience in those directions.
- I'd much rather talk about who I'm attracted to or what makes me feel
- aroused, but those are precisely the things that seem to send some
- people running a mile.
-
- As for trying to tell people I'm a virgin (aaarrrrggghhh! the V-word!)
- I sometimes get the impression that people would be happier hearing
- that I'm Jack the Ripper. I'm not asking them to do a conversion
- job on me, just to accept the simple fact, but for some reason
- people find it difficult to deal with. And yet I didn't *choose*
- to be a virgin, it just happens to be the default...
-
- (Nothing to do with this group I know, but I don't get many
- opportunities to talk about it!)
-
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