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Subject: Re: Another thought on why are males are X and women are Y
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Date: Thu, 2-Oct-86 12:01:20 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct  2 12:01:20 1986
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>|So, that's my perspective growing up on the west coast, female, in
>|the late 70's early 80's. Were things the same as they ever were(are)?
>|Trudy
>
>That line of demarkation (somewhere around 1973) seemed to me to mark
>an era -- not just of looks, but attitudes.

First - I graduated from high school in 1973, went to a middle class
high school in Seattle.  Because the U of Washington was near by and this
was the height of the baby boom class many of my classmates parents taught,
or worked, at U Dub.

I can't speak for everyone in the school, obviously, but the group that I hung
around with was pretty much sexually open.  By that I mean that we knew what
was good for the goose was good for the gander.  I don't recall any negative
stigma being attached to girls as they lost their virginity - of course the
event was not necessarily published.  Within our group (clique I guess) we
certainly did not engage in open sex or orgies or anything.  Sex was usually
a part of "going steady".  Naturally enough over the course of junior and
senior years several of the pairings changed, sometimes within the group.
(persons A & B were paired, as were C & D, later B & C were paired as were
A & G, etc)  Thus we tended to know a lot about each other.

Remember that there was free love in the sixties too - and many of us in the
early seventies were still yearning to be hippies.

Peter B