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From: susan@madvax.UUCP (Susan Finkelman)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: what makes you feel feminine/masculine?
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Date: Tue, 15-Oct-85 14:08:30 EDT
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> This brings up a point I'm really interested in.  The sexual posturing
> of most male-female relationships.
> 
> For me, I find that it gets in the way.  I have many (at least several)
> rewarding relationships with women that do not inlcude sex.  The problem
> is that there is still sexual posturing.  I admit there are times I enjoy
> what I call 'sexual tension' but usually I find that it somehow limits
> our possibilities.
> 
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> Got to go, but I'd like to ask "do women feel this way to?"  obviously
> women dont' think as a class so this is a poll.
> 
> Peter B

I often feel that way.  Most of my men friends are married, partnered (is
that a verb?) or gay, taking sex out of the realm of reasonable possiblity
by my rules.  I find it difficult to deal with the sexual "tension" that
occurs often with single men. I don't want to be homogenized into
sexual sameness, though.

  Susan Finkelman
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