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From: osman@sprite.DEC (Eric Osman, dtn 283-7484)
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Subject: age and attrictiveness
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Date: Mon, 18-Mar-85 09:09:38 EST
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I'd like to respond to Paul Hoefling's flame regarding age and attrictiveness.
Here's some repeated stuff for context:

>>> The word "girl" has at least two meanings.  It can refer to any
>>> prepubescent female.  Also, it is often used to describe any
>>> adult female who is still young enough to be sexually attractive.
>
>FLAME ON!
>YOUNG ENOUGH ?!?!!?  What makes you think that age has anything whatever
>to do with attractiveness of *any* kind, let alone sexual ?
>Flame off
>
>Paul Hoefling   (...!tektronix!paulh)

(End of repetition.  Now here's Eric Osman's [me] response)

I can only speak personally for myself, and I suspect others have similar
feelings.  I do not tend to find wrinkled or heavy women sexually attractive,
which features unfortunately tend to come with aging.

Hence I do think age has something to do with attractiveness.

So I'm a bit puzzled at the flame.

Perhaps Paul was upset at something OTHER than what I'm responding to,
in which case we have a communication problem.

/Eric