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From: rap@oliven.UUCP (Robert A. Pease)
Newsgroups: net.rec.nude
Subject: Re: Nudist life style
Message-ID: <531@oliven.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 7-Mar-86 13:35:09 EST
Article-I.D.: oliven.531
Posted: Fri Mar  7 13:35:09 1986
Date-Received: Sun, 9-Mar-86 00:43:26 EST
References: <588@ittvax.UUCP> <83200002@siemens.UUCP> <1819@hammer.UUCP> <2567@genat.UUCP> <683@frog.UUCP>
Reply-To: rap@oliven.UUCP (Robert A. Pease)
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Keywords: children, eating in front of

In article <683@frog.UUCP> wjr@frog.UUCP (STella Calvert) writes:
>In article <2567@genat.UUCP> phoenix@genat.UUCP () writes:
>>In article <1819@hammer.UUCP> tekecs!doghouse.TEK!snoopy writes:
>>>In article <83200002@siemens.UUCP> jar@siemens.UUCP writes:
>>>> There's nothing against being nude in front of your kids but I
>>>> think there should NEVER be ANY sexual activities in front of them.
>>>Ah, teaching the kids that nudity is okay, but sex is dirty.
>>I think it more to the point that sex is not *dirty*, but PRIVATE!!!
>
>OK, so riddle me this -- why is eating (another enjoyable biofunction)
>not only not private, but downright social?

Eating, unlike sex, allows you  to  enjoy  the  event  without  highly
focusing  your  concentration on it.  Most people focus very highly on
the act of sexual intercourse and get very  distracted  and/or annoyed
when   they  are  disturbed.  (This  of  course  does  not  take  into
consideration exhibitionists, whom I deliberately leave out.)

>I think the "sex is private" argument begs an important question -- if
>it's not "dirty", why is it necessarily more private than other
>activities?  You mean you let your kids watch you EAT?

Because thats the way \I/ like it, and thats  all  the  reason  anyone
needs.  Going to the bathroom isn't dirty.  No one thinks it is, but I
still want to have my privacy when I'm sitting on the throne.  You try
going with a bunch of kids barging in on you every two minutes.

>				STella Calvert
>
>		Do what thou wilt -- not just a good idea, 
>
>				it's the law!

Do keep in mind that, "Do what thou wilt", commands that you  not  let
anyone else choose for you, but that you choose for yourself.

					So mote it be.

-- 

					Robert A. Pease
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