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From: slf@panda.UUCP (Scott Fisher)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: Side-issue on agressiveness
Message-ID: <658@panda.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 25-Jul-85 08:43:50 EDT
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In article <6394@ucla-cs.ARPA> mccolm@ucla-cs.UUCP writes:
>A former SO once told me that she fantasized about seducing likely males
>quite often, and only *very* rarely fantasized about being seduced by them.
>Conversations (based on a sample size that wouldn't tax two hands to count)
>with other women appear to bear this out, on first impression.  Furthermore,
>conversations with men (based on even smaller sample sizes) seem to bear out
>their fantasizing about being seduced, rather than doing the seducing.
>
>If this is borne out in general (biiiig stretch), does this mean that the
>socially acceptable men-do-the-asking-and-women-do-the-answering is not only
>not the only way things can happen, but actually less preferable than the
>reverse?  Are the mating games among humans screwed up at so basic a level?

In fantasizing I think we tend to live out things that are difficult to
obtain in real life. I think if the roles ever do get reversed so will
the fantasies.

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