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- From: stef@Apple.COM (Stef Jones)
- Newsgroups: soc.singles
- Subject: Re: What do you Am men think about Am wome
- Message-ID: <74488@apple.apple.COM>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 18:13:01 GMT
- References: <1992Nov7.051050.19307@netcom.com> <1992Nov8.013105.14917@sol.UVic.CA> <1992Nov13.220212.2779@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <1992Nov14.002940.21755@tandem.com> <1992Nov16.224107.3359@odin.corp.sgi.com> <92321.195239SAUNDRSG@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>
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- SAUNDRSG@QUCDN.QueensU.CA (Graydon) writes:
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- >My guess on this stuff is related to differences in what people think
- >sex is for. People who think sex is recreation act very similarly,
- >modulo cultural gender based communication differences. Peope who
- >think sex is an affirmation of life-long commitment, ditto.
-
- Excellent point.
-
- And some people think that sex is for a variety of different things,
- depending on the people and circumstances involved.
-
- One neat thing it took me a while to learn is that people can be sexual with
- each other even if they aren't in the mood for the exact same thing. I had
- always thought of sex as something requiring equivalent interest from both
- parties; unless both were in the mood, it wasn't working; if I couldn't
- interest my partner in sex, it meant I wasn't desirable; &c. But if one
- partner happens not to be particularly horny, sex can be a gift of love,
- and that can be just as wonderful as intense mutual passion.
-
- When one partner has a higher sex drive than the other, both partners need
- to be willing to compromise, to explore ways of sharing sexual activities
- that satisfy the horny partner but don't exhaust the non-horny one, and to
- try to keep sex out of any (non-playful) power struggles that may develop
- in the course of the relationship.
-
- --
- Stef Reality is that which, when you stop believing
- stef@apple.com in it, doesn't go away.
-