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- From: sa121@cl.cam.ac.uk (S. Arrowsmith)
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- Subject: Re: What's a "partner"? (was Re: treating men as sex toys)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan7.162214.27025@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
- Date: 7 Jan 93 16:22:14 GMT
- References: <MUFFY.92Dec24114049@remarque.berkeley.edu> <MUFFY.93Jan6115727@remarque.berkeley.edu> <1ihcqhINN6rm@cuda.add.itg.ti.com>
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- In article <1ihcqhINN6rm@cuda.add.itg.ti.com>
- winsor@Not Heresomewhere.out.there (js) writes:
- >What is exactly wrong with "sex-with-anyone-that-will-hold-still" being
- >a viable definition of "bisexual"? I understand that it is not yours, or
- >mine for that matter, but I think that it has merit in this: If someone
- >is *willing* to have sex-with-anything-that-moves (we assume human, for now),
- >then I believe that that willingness necessarily implies bisexuality.
- >
- Point being that it doesn't *define* bisexuality -- it is only a criterion
- by which a person may be judged ( bisexual | undetermined ). A definition
- needs to include all (well, virtually all) people who might by some
- appropriate heuristic be considered "bisexual" for it to be useful. This
- one clearly fails....
-
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