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From: laura@utcsstat.UUCP (Laura Creighton)
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Subject: Re: On remarks from guest@sfucmpt
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Date: Tue, 25-Oct-83 05:02:39 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct 25 05:02:39 1983
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Well, part of the trouble is terror (I like the private chamber of
horrors) of same-sex sex, but of sex itself. The old idea that sex is
nasty, terrible, sinful and wrong is rather well entrenched even among
people who claim to be liberated.

There are 2 extremes which you can find in any goup of 5 or more (randomly
selected) people, as far as I know. One is "sex is so bad and horrible
that we really shouldn't do it" and the other is "well, if they say its
so bad, then it must be real good so i want lots and lots of it!".

The strange thing is that these 2 camps, all the while, incite each
other on. The more people who find the thought of sex somewhat deadly
or repellent the more other people will thinkt hat it must be a commodity
that they should get more and more of. And by the time these latter souls
have discovered that "to hell with relationships, there is nothing in life
but sex" then they have pretty well justified the first groups claim about
how terrible and impersonal promiscuity makes you. And the cycle goes on,
and on, and on...

Meanwhile the whole society gets sex on the brain. And people like advertisers
encourage it. Sex gets mixed up with love, and power, and responsibility, and
counteless other things to the point where i am sure that archeologists
digging up Western Society 3 millenia from now are going to be convinced
that our whole lives were expressions of sex and sexuality.

And still we cannot talk about it!

Laura Creighton
utzoo!utcsstat!laura