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From: prs@oliveb.UUCP (Phil Stephens)
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Subject: Re: Grey Porn  (Long)
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Date: Fri, 3-Oct-86 21:02:57 EDT
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Hi, the following is part of a letter I tried to mail you.  My machine
does not understand 
			rb@ccird1.UUCP

Please suggest a workable path from oliveb (or mail, and I'll look at header).



Thank you for a very comprehensive, much more light than heat, article!
Well-worth the length of it.

A minor point: $17 dollars?  Seems a little high.  If one is into such things,
I would suggest looking for a mail order source.  Some are more specialized
than others, and several exist that I know of.  One even has half-price sales!

Thanks again for a very knowlegeable posting.  I have noticed you are one
of the most frequently worthwhile to read.

I especially like your catagories, from marshmello to ultra.  Very expressive.

A minor addition I might make...
>It is important to note that Adult store patrons represent a small segment
>of the population.  It would not be safe to say *most* women are into
>bondage :-).

More like 1 in seven, according to a survey quoted in some half-remembered 
article in some men's magazine.  I have no idea if this is accurate.  And 
it wasn't "into", it was more like 14% of women "sometimes fantasize", and 
a significantly smaller number would actually want to try it (for their own 
pleasure).  Could actually be higher now, with changing awareness; that 
survey was at least 5 years ago.  (The point is, one might naively imagine 
a vanishingly small percentage of women, but it's actually not that small 
an "interest group".  Survey said more men interested in trying it than 
women, but I've forgotten the figure.  Oh, and I assume they lumped together 
both polarities of who ties and who gets tied).


You made lots of other good points, too many to bother you with complementing
each seperately.  I just want to emphasize liking this one:

>These are certainly not the only factors in a relationship, be it a "one
>night stand", or marriage.  They are important factors that should be
>--discussed-- before making long term commitments, rather than --discovered--
>weeks or even years after the honeymoon.

This (and the following two paragraphs with it) is very well said.  The very
existance of this entertainment is valuable to such communication, without
requiring any "literary" merit.

>Rex B.

	- Phil				prs@oliven.UUCP (Phil Stephens)
	 			or:	prs@oliveb.UUCP