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From: barryg@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Barry Gold)
Newsgroups: net.women,net.singles
Subject: Re: Ann Landers Survey
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Date: Sun, 20-Jan-85 14:36:29 EST
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Summary: 

We recently discussed this point in APA-L (the Los Angeles Science
Fantasy Society's weekly amateur press association).  Everyone, male and
female, agreed that if it were a choice of sex without cuddling -- or
cuddling without sex, they preferred the latter.  And then went on to
say that ideally they wanted both.

I'm afraid the Landers survey indicates that far too many American women
feel that they have to choose:  i.e. that their lovers don't make them
feel secure/loved, merely erotically desired.

This may well tie into the (statistically proved) fact that people with
pets tend to live longer.  People need affection, and the pets apparently
supply a more significant source of that than husbands do.  (Judging from
the fact that single women live longer than married women, while married
men live longer than single men--and all sorts live longer if they have
pets.)

--Lee Gold