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- From: sa121@cl.cam.ac.uk (S. Arrowsmith)
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- Subject: Friends and Lovers (was Re: treating men as sex toys)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan7.163651.27410@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
- Date: 7 Jan 93 16:36:51 GMT
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- muffy@remarque.berkeley.edu (Muffy Barkocy) writes:
- >
- >In article <1993Jan6.105512.2001@infodev.cam.ac.uk> gdb15@grebe.cl.cam.ac.uk (Guy Barry) writes:
- >>What do you mean by "emotional partner" (as distinct from a close friend)?
- >
- >Well, for me, it really isn't that distinct, actually...*smile*. I
- >realized a couple of years ago that the only difference between my close
- >friends and my lovers was how much I wanted to have sex with them.
- >
- It was reasoning along those sort of lines that got me thinking about
- being bisexual in the first place. From a somewhat detached(*) viewpoint,
- I thought "What is the difference between a really close friend and a
- lover? The degree of physical involvement, I suppose. Now, if there is
- no requirement for sex in a relationship (And it isn't, with me), and a
- close friend can be of either sex, why should there be any distinction
- between them?" (Or something like that.) Blurring boundaries is the
- first step in breaking them down....
-
- (*) Having at the time no experience of lovers, or, really, close friends.
-
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