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From: ofut@gatech.UUCP (Jeff Offutt)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: On "platonic" friendships - sexual platonism.
Message-ID: <2863@gatech.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 15-Dec-83 15:45:30 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec 15 15:45:30 1983
Date-Received: Sat, 17-Dec-83 02:04:36 EST
Organization: Georgia Tech School of ICS, Atlanta
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-- ...that I must be very weird. I find
-- almost every person I meet sexually attractive.
-- The world is FULL of sexually attractive people. But that doesn't 
-- mean that I am going to do anything about it -- I don't pick all 
-- the roses I see, either.

I remember once reading that women like the same qualities in a man that
other men like in a man.  I found that very strange, that if women like
me because I have a great body *heh heh* then other men will appreciate
it as well.  Maybe strange to our machism but true as well.

Finding someone sexually attractive doesn't mean that you want to have
sex with them.  I can note that male friends of mine are sexually
attractive without wanting to have sex with them (yech!).  If I go out
of my way to know a female I usually find her sexually attractive,
even if my intentions are completely platonic.  This is something we
seldom are able to admit - especially when it comes to MOWS (Members
of the wrong sex), but it exists.  We are all somewhat sexual animals.

Though maybe some of us are more sexual than others - I certainly don't
find "almost every" person I meet sexually attractive.
-- 
Jeff Offutt
School of ICS, Georgia Tech, Atlanta GA
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