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From: dmcanzi@watdcsu.UUCP (David Canzi)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Re: Beach harassment:  some questions
Message-ID: <2086@watdcsu.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 11-Feb-86 08:55:05 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb 11 08:55:05 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 12-Feb-86 02:55:53 EST
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Reply-To: dmcanzi@watdcsu.UUCP (David Canzi)
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Summary: 

In article <1394@mhuxt.UUCP> js2j@mhuxt.UUCP (sonntag) writes:
>> In article <917@whuxl.UUCP> stu16@whuxl.UUCP (SMITH) writes:
>> >      If a woman wants to gets a "seamless" tan, and has a
>> >good book she wants to read, and has a hour or two, what
>> >better place to spend it than on a beach? ...
>> 
>> What sense is there in getting a seamless tan *on* *her* *back*
>> *only*?  She can't, by undoing the top half of her bikini, get a
>> seamless tan on the front of her body or below the waist.  I cannot
>> convince myself that undoing the back of her bikini was not intended to
>> attract men.
>
>     A seamless tan on the back only can be quite nice, I'm sure, as various
>types of halters and tops worn in the summer have narrow straps in slightly 
>different locations.  A tan line on the back is often visible.  And since
>this woman showed absolutely no interest in anything but reading, why do
>you find it so hard to believe that she wasn't trying to attract men?

Because I had forgotten about summer clothing with narrow straps in
the back, and backless dresses, and such.  Possibly due to the fact
that I haven't seen any lately.  So the only other possible reason
I could think of was to attract attention, a predictable result of
undoing a bikini strap.
-- 
David Canzi

"Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more
certain they are their own." -- Aristotle