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From: roy@gatech.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Sex, Hermaphrodites and Equality
Message-ID: <1743@gatech.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 27-Oct-83 13:02:29 EST
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Posted: Thu Oct 27 13:02:29 1983
Date-Received: Mon, 31-Oct-83 05:29:30 EST
Organization: School of ICS, Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, GA)
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Are you for real?  Withhold sex until marriage in order to force
the man to be a better mate?  I don't know about anyone else, but
*I* for one would not marry anyone who used sex (or any other form
of coersion) to try to make me change.  It just doesn't seem to be
good grounds for a relationship to me....

And what *if* Jesus was a hermaphrodite?  There is a species of
toad (the Surinam, I believe) whose unfertilized eggs will develop
to term if some sort of shock is applied to them (such as agitating
the water the are in).  Scientists believe that such "virgin" births
*are* possible in humans, but are very improbable.  With the current
population of the earth, they estimate that ~3 people alive today
had no father.  But, since they have only 1 chromosome (an X), they
would be female.

Finally, I would just like to say that I would find it extremely
odd if men and women thought alike.  Science 83 (or 82) had an
article about evidence that seems to indicate that people who
learned Japanese as their initial language process information
in different parts of the brain than non-Japanese thinking people.
I would be very surprised if language can affect the brain, but
sex does not.  But really, what is wrong with being different?
Difference isn't the point of contention.  It is the *right* to
be different that we should be fighting for.
-- 
"Roy J. Mongiovi"
  USA:  School of ICS, Georgia Institute of Technology.  Atlanta, GA 30332
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