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- From: julie@cucbs.chem.columbia.edu (Julie Wright)
- Subject: Re: What do you Am men think about Am wome
- In-Reply-To: huston@access.digex.com's message of Tue, 17 Nov 1992 22:29:19 GMT
- Message-ID: <JULIE.92Nov18210236@cucbs.chem.columbia.edu>
- Sender: julie@cucbs.chem.columbia.edu (Julie Wright)
- Organization: The Cultural Elite
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- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 02:02:36 GMT
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- huston@access.digex.com (Herb Huston) writes:
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- >tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode) writes:
- >>In article <d+hqdlg@lynx.unm.edu> blowfish@carina.unm.edu (rON.) writes:
- >>>Personally, I believe that sexual duration is a valuable asset. :)
-
- >>[comments on women's attitudes about short duration]
- >>(Of course this observation
- >>is coming from someone who has traditionally had the opposite problem, so it
- >>may be a bit skewed.)
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- >Here are some numbers. The average duration of human copulation is about
- >four minutes.
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- I have this image of some guy standing discreetly in the corner of the
- bedroom with a clipboard and stopwatch. "Pay no attention to the man
- behind the curtain, dear."
-
- >Among mammals, though, the record-holder is some rodent at twelve hours!
-
- So Trygve, are you a man or a mouse?
-
- ---Julie
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- * loris, n. Any of several small, nocturnal, arboreal primates of the *
- * genera _Loris_ and _Nycticebus_, of tropical Asia, having dense, woolly *
- * fur, large eyes, and a vestigial tail. [French, probably from obsolete *
- * Dutch _loeris_, simpleton, clown.] ---- American Heritage Dictionary *
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