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- From: winsor@teng.ppd.ti.com (js)
- Newsgroups: soc.bi
- Subject: Re: What's a "partner"? (was Re: treating men as sex toys)
- Date: 7 Jan 1993 23:11:16 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan7.162214.27025@infodev.cam.ac.uk>, sa121@cl.cam.ac.uk (S. Arrowsmith) writes:
- *** 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....
- Well, we are all grappling with different parts of the same elephant
- here, you know. How can ANYBODY assign, in good consience, a single
- imperative definition (for definitions are imperatives) to a desperately
- intractible intangible like sexuality. Mabe we should try our hands
- at defining, say, a "david parsons" or an "Elf!!!" or a "Masked Muffin"?
- Inadequate data (not knowing what the hell lies under sexuality, to begin
- with) leads to inadequate conclusions. GIGO.
-
- Dig?
-
- jsjohn
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