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- From: rna@leland.Stanford.EDU (Robert Ashcroft)
- Subject: Re: Flirting How To Guide/Backrubs
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.024440.4003@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News)
- Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
- References: <C1ByvC.Cxp@CAM.ORG> <1993Jan24.064613.29860@leland.Stanford.EDU> <1993Jan24.220457.12422@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 02:44:40 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan24.220457.12422@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan24.064613.29860@leland.Stanford.EDU> rna@leland.Stanford.EDU (Robert Ashcroft) writes:
- >>Huh? I don't like spinach much either. Does this mean I avoid those who do?
- >>Tell me: I'm dying to know what my preferences are, since you seem to know
- >>so much more about me that I do.
- >Perhaps it was a little presumptuous to assume that you felt that way, but
- >it isn't that unreasonable an assumption, given how often differing feelings
- >about physical contact cause friction (or, worse, not enough friction) in a
- >relationship. Like Aahz, I would be unlikely to enjoy a romantic
- >relationship with someone who wasn't given to being physically affectionate--
- >indeed, I've found through experience that if I'm involved with someone
- >who is not physically affectionate (in a generalized sense, not merely a
- >sexual sense) that I end up losing both romantic and sexual feelings for
- >this person.
-
- *?* Are you saying that not being wildly appreciative of a backrub implies
- not physically affectionate? Because that's not true either.
-
- All I said, repeat, ALL I said, was that backrubs don't do much for me.
-
- Note that this does NOT imply that I filter out those who do, and it does
- NOT imply that I'm not physically affectionate within a relationship. It's
- remarkable how some people immediately draw these implications. Is there
- something threatening about someone for whom backrubs are not a wonderful
- thing?
-
- Sheesh, I thought I made a joke when I came out as not wild about backrubs.
- You gonna tar and feather me too?
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- RNA
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