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From: jin@hropus.UUCP (Jerry Natowitz)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: near where their partner urinates
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Date: Thu, 9-Oct-86 17:17:02 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct  9 17:17:02 1986
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> In article <7954@sri-spam.ARPA> peck@sri-spam writes:
> 
> > [repeatedly DRINKING large quantities of urine will confuse your kidney's
> >  (those chemical nasties keep building up), but basically the stuff is ok]
> 
>     Are you sure it is even this bad? There are people who either for
> health or sexual reasons, drink the stuff every day. I hadn't heard it
> did any harm to them -- Mohandas Desi seemed healthy enough, for instance.
> 
> ucbvax!brahms!gsmith    Gene Ward Smith/UCB Math Dept/Berkeley CA 94720
>           "There are no differences but differences of degree 
>             between degrees of difference and no difference"                                

In fact in traditional Siberian and Alaskan cultures where fly agaric
mushrooms are used for hallucinogenic purposes drinking the urine of
others in an accepted practice that is the least dangerous way of
ingesting the hallucinogen.  Fly agaric contains both toxic and non-toxic
components, the toxic components are metabolized into non-toxic
derivatives whereas the non-toxic (and hallucinogenic) components
are largely excreted unchanged.

You've probably heard tales that Eskimo men *expect* male visitors to sleep
with their wives, what is usually unsaid is that they also offer a cup
of nice warm urine.  I think both practices are probably rare now-a-days...
-- 
     Jerry Natowitz (HASA - A division)
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