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- From: kay@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Kay Dekker)
- Subject: Re: Talking about sex (was Re: Party Face, Net Face)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.215152.363@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>
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- Organization: Department of Computer Science, Warwick University, England
- References: <1993Jan25.114850.8718@infodev.cam.ac.uk> <1993Jan25.185513.27281@dcs.warwick.ac.uk> <1993Jan25.193545.26073@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 21:51:52 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan25.193545.26073@infodev.cam.ac.uk> gdb15@cl.cam.ac.uk writes:
- >In article <1993Jan25.185513.27281@dcs.warwick.ac.uk> kay@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Kay Dekker) writes:
- >>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?
-
- I don't think that I was persisting in doing so - if I was, I'm
- sorry. It sort-of got tied in with my reply to something Paul
- Crowley wrote, about the differences, the definitional problems
- of "sex", "sexual", and so forth; to that extent, what I was
- saying is involved in your answer. For example, some people
- may define "sex" to include masturbation; the two-hour drool-cum-
- fantasy I had on the train coming home from Cambridge on Sunday
- was very sexual, even though it was in my head only, centered
- around the person sleeping opposite me, quite oblivious; if
- my fantasy was sex, have I had sex with him but not him with
- me - him being asleep, and all that?
-
- Hence this momentary hunger for, if not other people's definitions,
- then at least for their ruminations.
-
- --
- the Crisco Kid: quiet, shy, mono, Armani-suited. Not. idx009@uk.ac.cov.cck
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