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From: larrabee@decwrl.DEC.COM (Tracy Larrabee)
Newsgroups: net.singles,net.women,net.social
Subject: Re: The Sexual Revolution
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Date: Wed, 30-Jul-86 18:06:51 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 30 18:06:51 1986
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In article <900@ihu1h.UUCP> jailbird@ihu1h.UUCP (Harvey) writes:
>[...]	
>	I simplify but do not entirely misrepresent that
>	supposed revolution if I describe it in this 
>	way: Wheras the ideal women in olden times might 
>	have given a dusty male wayfarer on the road of life
>	a piece of pie - a modern women may now give him a
>	hand job or a blow job as well. 
>
>	I am sorry, but that is how I read it. [Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
>_Palm Sunday_, p. 318]
>

I like Kurt Vonnegut, so I have to assume he meant that as a condemnation
of the restricted nature of the average person's conception of the sexual
revolution. Something about Harvey's presentation of the quotation does
not allow me to give him the same slack.

On the other hand, Where is my pie?
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Tracy Larrabee	tracy@sushi.stanford.edu	decwrl!larrabee

Fashions in sin change.
		-Lillian Hellman-