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- From: muffy@remarque.berkeley.edu (Muffy Barkocy)
- Newsgroups: soc.bi
- Subject: Re: Friends and Lovers
- Date: 7 Jan 93 10:41:44
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- In-reply-to: sa121@cl.cam.ac.uk's message of 7 Jan 93 16:36:51 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan7.163651.27410@infodev.cam.ac.uk> sa121@cl.cam.ac.uk (S. Arrowsmith) writes:
- >muffy@remarque.berkeley.edu (Muffy Barkocy) writes:
- >>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?"
-
- Yup, that's basically how it worked for me, too, although I didn't go
- into much reasoning about it until after the fact...*smile*. Still, the
- amount I want to touch someone is directly related to how I feel about
- them, and there are friends of mine of both sexes who I love, and
- therefore am happy to touch quite a lot. The only thing that this
- leaves out, though, is lusting after people...*grin*. While I might be
- *willing* to have sex with someone I love, *wanting* to have sex is a
- separate thing, for me. I have definitely wanted sex with people I did
- not love, and not wanted sex with people I love. I still haven't
- figured out what controls that...*smile*...but whatever it is works with
- both women and men. Once I discovered *that*, I went back and thought
- about why it wasn't different (given that I had thought for so long that
- it was), and followed the reasoning you give above.
-
- Muffy
- --
-
- Muffy Barkocy | ~Never had a lot of faith in human beings/
- muffy@mica.berkeley.edu | but sometimes we manage to shine/like a
- "amorous inclinations"? Aha! I'm | light on a hill beaming out to space/from
- not "not straight," I'm *inclined*.| somewhere hard to find~ - Bruce Cockburn
-