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From: sue@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Susan Haseltine)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: Kate Hepburn on sex life of today's college students
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Date: Wed, 24-Oct-84 13:08:23 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct 24 13:08:23 1984
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Reply-To: sue@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Susan Haseltine)
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Summary: 

[prophylactic]

Larry Welsch description of when a person is ready for sex sounds
more like when a person is ready for heaven.  Making participation
in an activity that is hardwired into our beings subject to
subjective personal development does not make it more natural.
Without the aspects of pregnancy, disease and coercion sex should
be looked on somewhere between eating and driving.  Like eating
there is a built in requirement, like driving, doing without
causes a varying amount of personal inconvenience, and again like driving,
it can be dangerous, and individuals should receive instruction.

But as for the attributes Larry lists, while I agree that relationships
where the involved parties possess these are "better",  I believe
that for those of us who do not enter physical maturity with
the majority of them, it is through trial and error that they
are acquired.  And this can not happen if we wait outside of
intimate relationships to perfect ourselves.  Some people are
fortunate in their upbringing, and know how to value themselves
and others, but others have to learn these lessons by risking the
pain involved in unsuccessful relationships.

Susan Haseltine

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