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From: sdyer@bbncca.ARPA (Steve Dyer)
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Subject: Re: Platonic Relationships
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Date: Sat, 17-Dec-83 02:37:18 EST
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Posted: Sat Dec 17 02:37:18 1983
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No, I don't really agree.  I have friends whose company I enjoy,
and I don't think of them as potential sexual partners (this is
different from physical attractiveness.)  I think that early
on in a relationship, two people try to get synched into each
others' expectations.  This doesn't always happen, of course.
And, I admit that over the course of a relationship this could
change.

I think that it's probably easier for two gay men to form this
platonic bond than it is for a straight man and a woman, simply
because there's not the extra tradition of male/female, Tarzan/Jane
stuff they have to deal with.
-- 
/Steve Dyer
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