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From: jeand@ihlpg.UUCP (AMBAR)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: Side-issue on aggressiveness (fantasies)
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Date: Sat, 27-Jul-85 08:59:03 EDT
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> 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?  
> Eric McColm

How about, we fantasize about what we don't (or wouldn't have the nerve to) do?