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From: brianp@shark.UUCP (Brian Peterson)
Newsgroups: net.abortion
Subject: Re: Is Abstinence Abnormal?
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Date: Thu, 23-Aug-84 23:21:17 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 23 23:21:17 1984
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^M   Brian Peterson makes the following comment:
^M   
^M   > If you say that abstinence is
^M   > a perfectly good way to be ignorant and "responsible" at the same time,
^M   > let me respond by saying that Mama Nature has cleverly designed people so
^M   > that abstinence is unthinkable for normal people)
^M   
^M   First, abstinence does not imply or require ignorance; you
^M   could be informed, responsible, and abstinent (<-- one of those
^M   words which never looks right, but I looked it up).

Isn't that what I was saying?  

^M   Second, I guess you are a creationist who believes in a female deity. :-)
(:-)

^M   Third, and most important, I contest the statement that "abstinence
^M   is unthinkable for normal people."  No doubt it depends on your
^M   definition of "normal," but I reject the notion that someone who
^M   abstains from sexual intercourse is necessarily not "normal."
^M   Gary Samuelson
^M   ittvax!bunker!garys

I was not saying that people who abstain are defective wierdos.
Neither are people who can lift 400 lbs, or people who are rather 
intelligent.  I was talking numbers, not health.  Abstainers are just 
not average or common.  I suggest that you dig
up some statistics on who has sex how early (in their life :-) and how
often.  The last time I saw something along those lines in the newspapers,
the abstainers were definitely in the minority.  (I have no recollection 
of their frequency of sex, though.)
Peer and hormonal pressures which are countered by little
personal morals push people to sex.

Brian Peterson  {ucbvax, ihnp4, }  !tektronix!shark!brianp