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- From: gdb15@grebe.cl.cam.ac.uk (Guy Barry)
- Subject: Re: Talking about sex (was Re: Party Face, Net Face)
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- References: <1993Jan24.145815.27594@infodev.cam.ac.uk> <1993Jan25.040631.12858@midway.uchicago.edu> <1993Jan25.114850.8718@infodev.cam.ac.uk> <1993Jan25.185513.27281@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 19:35:45 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan25.185513.27281@dcs.warwick.ac.uk> kay@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Kay Dekker) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan25.114850.8718@infodev.cam.ac.uk> gdb15@cl.cam.ac.uk writes:
- >>In article <1993Jan25.040631.12858@midway.uchicago.edu> ss19@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
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- >>> Perhaps there's a certain amount of discomfort because those
- >>>people feel that they can't adequately describe their experiences
- >>>to someone who hasn't been sexual?
- >>
- >>Careful! I said I was a virgin, not that I hadn't been sexual. (Here
- >>I go, fending off all the old misconceptions again... sigh...)
- >
- >OK then, Guy: what do you mean by "virgin"? My simple off-the-cuff
- >version definition is "someone who hasn't had sex" - but that opens
- >the can of worms about what constitutes "sex. And you say that
- >saying virgin to you doesn't equate with saying not having been
- >sexual. I think I'd like clarification, if you'll give it.
-
- Yes, I haven't had a sexual experience with another person.
- That doesn't mean I haven't "been sexual", as though I've
- never had any sexual feelings, or never masturbated. Why
- do people persist in talking about sexuality as though it
- were only about having sex?
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