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From: mckay@princeton.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: More MOTSS response (promise I'll try to keep it brief)
Message-ID: <22@princeton.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 31-Aug-83 03:11:03 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 31 03:11:03 1983
Date-Received: Thu, 1-Sep-83 02:46:20 EDT
Organization: Princeton University
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A friend of mine (straight male, roughly 20 at the time) was approached by
a gay man in a record store and invited to tea.  He was quite flattered,
explained that he was straight but went to tea anyway and enjoyed talking
with the guy.  A nice simple story with a happy ending.
 
I had a woman tell me she was "very sexually attracted" to me in a very
emotional scene once at camp.  I have to admit it kind of blew my mind
(I was fifteen at the time).  But after I quit panicking I was mostly
sorry that I could not make her happy that way, because I loved her, too,
but was quite straight.  We had known each other for some time when this
all happened.
 
I think people's strong negative reactions are mostly due to fear.  
The religious issue is quite another thing, but I humbly suggest that
those who hate homosexuals on Christian grounds go back and see what
Jesus had to say about hating people; also how he treated the people that
were considered "deviants" in his time.
 
Interestingly, as I was training to be a Sexuality Education Counseling
& Health student advisor here at Princeton, we had quite a long discussion
and some films about homosexuality, and EVERYONE was quite comfortable
with homosexuals of the opposite sex, but felt at least a little 
threatened about homosexuals of the same sex as themselves.  (Someone
else has also mentioned this effect.)
 
Oops, that should read EVERY HETEROSEXUAL was quite comfortable... etc.
Funny how my own preference shows up so loudly in my prose.  Sorry.
I assume the homosexuals felt equally comfortable with both sexes, but
I don't know.  How 'bout it, homosexuals on the net?  Or heterosexuals?
Which sex do you more often feel comfortable with?

   Sorry, I *meant* to be brief...   really....
                                windy*    (...princeton! mckay)