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- From: sa121@cl.cam.ac.uk (S. Arrowsmith)
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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 16:16:31 GMT
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- In article <1k5hf0$4rn@agate.berkeley.edu> rsr@soda.berkeley.edu (Roy S. Rapoport) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan27.072136.5508@rat.csc.calpoly.edu> pclary@mushroom.csc.calpoly.edu (Ellen Clary) writes:
- >->the first part of that statement. My guess is that attitudes about
- >->sex (be in threesomes or whathaveyou) have more to do with self-esteem
- >->and personal comfort levels than orientation.
- >
- >Pardon me, Ellen, but I have some questions/misgivings about this statement.
- >
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- >How do you think that self-esteem and personal comfort levels make a
- >difference in ones attitude about sex? Are you saying that more self-assured
- >people will tend to be easier WRT sex (easier here not used in a negative
- >way, of course), or that they will be more choosy?
- >
- I would have thought that, in general, less self-assured people would have
- more misgivings about sex (in any numerical combination) simply because
- they are less confident about themselves, and have doubts about whether
- sex would be worth it for/with them. Um, I'm not expressing myself too
- well, but it's one of those things that is so blindingly intuitively
- obvious to me that I wouldn't expect to have to explain it.
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