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- From: jcarroll@bach.udel.edu (James Carroll)
- Subject: Re: Lifestyle (was Re: Coming out to family)
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- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 00:41:16 GMT
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- In article <C0ppF4.GHA@newcastle.ac.uk> J.W.Harley@newcastle.ac.uk (Jon Harley) writes:
- >bbooth@x400gate.bnr.ca (Brad Booth) writes:
- >>
- >>>J.W.Harley@newcastle.ac.uk (Jon Harley) writes:
- >>> both sexes. In other words, that is a chosen way of living.
- >>
- >>I think that lifestyle is defined by the way you choose to live your
- >>life.
- >
- >That's exactly what I said.
- >
- >> If you like purchasing lots of material goods, you live a sort
- >>of "yuppie" lifestyle. If you enjoy participating in sports, you live
- >>an active lifestyle. If you prefer to be in the company of gays, you
- >>might consider that you live a queer lifestyle.
- >
- >I doubt anyone who didn't actually have sex with MOTSS would *want* to claim that
- >they lived a queer lifestyle, at least in my understanding of the term.
- >
-
- I have not (yet, *grin*) had sex with an motss, but feel that (in some
- respects) I live a "queer lifestyle".
-
- >> Your sexuality can be
- >>a very seperate part of the lifestyle you choose to live. And, some
- >>friends may describe your lifestyle one way, while others describe it
- >>another way.
- >
- >How *you* describe your own lifestyle is the only description that counts, surely.
- >
-
- Definitely.
-
- >>Your sexuality is a seperate matter. I like the Webster's def'n for
- >>sexuality:
- >> "expression of sexual receptivity or interest"
- >>Bi's, queers and straights all exhibit this. We're all sexual
- >>creatures. We also all choose to life our lives in very different,
- >>but sometime similar, ways.
- >
- >I disagree. Closeted queers (including bis) may be too afraid to _express_ any sexual
- >interest they may have in MOTSS, for instance. If this is the case then they are not
- >choosing to live a queer lifestyle. Yet if they do have the sexual interest, that is
- >part of their sexuality, and it is unlikely to be chosen.
-
- I disagree with you. I am not out to my roommate, therefore I do not
- express any motss interests I have when he is around. (Which is really
- hard when watching Melrose Place! :-) ) Yet, I openly read issues of The
- Advocate and 10 Percent in the apartment; he knows I'm in Queer Campus,
- and knew of my involvement with No on 9 and my efforts here in Delaware to
- educate others about M9. I occasionally talk to him about LGB issues.
- Hence, in many ways, I have a "queer lifestyle" around him, without
- expressing my attraction to motss. Thus, I choose to live somewhat of a
- queer lifestyle without being out.
-
- But I will agree that sexual interest is part of sexuality and neither are
- chosen.
-
- >
- >One of the definitions of sexuality in one of my dictionaries suggests simply "sexual
- >impulses", which seems to me a better definition.
- >
- >My point was that lifestyle is chosen, sexuality may not be.
-
- Agreed. (I feel that sexuality, for whatever reason(s), is not chosen.)
-
- >
- >
- >/jon
- > ___________________ ____ ________________________________________
- > / -- Jonathan Harley \ /_ And they covered up the sun // // //
- > / J.W.Harley@ncl.ac.uk \/ / until the birds had flown away... // // //////
- >/_Phone:UK 091 222 8504__\/___________________________________/////////// //
-
- -James
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