Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 7/1/84; site wuphys.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!mgnetp!we53!busch!wuphys!del From: del@wuphys.UUCP (Dave de Lake) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re: What's the poop? Message-ID: <223@wuphys.UUCP> Date: Sun, 10-Feb-85 17:19:31 EST Article-I.D.: wuphys.223 Posted: Sun Feb 10 17:19:31 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 11-Feb-85 06:58:54 EST References: <485@decwrl.UUCP> Organization: Physics Dept., Washington Univ. in St. Louis Lines: 41 > Jack said (re; divorce); > < > < > > > I must admit that I'm surprized that marriage is even an issue anymore. > > The following is not a flame (in fact, I'm quite calm). > > Reading the recent articles in net.singles is like watching 'Happy Days'. > "living together is a sin", "does the bible allow fornication between > unmarried adults", "love is perfect and unselfish and everlasting", etc. > > What year is this? I thought these issues had been laid to rest. > > I'm 36, but I don't recall these issues being important even in my > early twenties (which I assume (am I wrong?) most of the net.singles > contributors are). > > Seriously, why are these issues again? > > Kuriously, Karl I kind of agree,...I've been noticing a new wave of social conservatism during the past few years. I am only twenty, but I have lived with an SO and feel that these things are not really issues that will affect my life in the long run. Those around me seem to differ....college crowds are supposedly more conservative politically but more liberal socially these days. It seems that the sexual revolution has really had no revolutionary impact on people's sexual mores.... Dave @Compton Sanitarium (not for long!!!)