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- From: rna@leland.Stanford.EDU (Robert Ashcroft)
- Subject: Re: Flirting How To Guide/Backrubs
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.025533.4741@leland.Stanford.EDU>
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 02:55:33 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan25.013246.5148@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan25.005833.29108@leland.Stanford.EDU> jones@samish.Stanford.EDU (Caren Jones) writes:
- >>Sheesh, it's an awfully big leap to say that somebody who doesn't
- >>enjoy backrubs doesn't enjoy physical contact or affection. I
- >>don't like people licking my ears, but that doesn't imply that I
- >>don't like backrubs, hugs, holding hands, foreplay, sex, or
- >>anything else.
- >It's not that big a leap--I'd say there was a general trend for people
- >who don't like backrubs to be less likely to be very physically
- >affectionate (and, as said before, this is affectionate as opposed to
- >sexual) than people who do like backrubs. Certainly we're not talking
- >about a 100% correlation, but neither is it so negligible a correlation
- >for Francois' remark to be entirely from out in left field.
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- Perhaps there is such a correlation, or perhaps there is a correlation between
- people who want to be physically affectionate with YOU and people who like
- backrubs.
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- In that way you would be right to screen for people who don't like backrubs,
- but you'd be wrong to assume that's because these people are generally
- physically unaffectionate.
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- In fact, since you are almost certainly drawing conclusions based on your
- own experience, the second correlation is the only one you can really make.
-
- ("Hi Ma'am, we're doing a university study on the correlation
- between backrubs and physical affection. Please think of me as a scientist
- and not as a Norse-American heartthrob." <--- Tryg's next pickup line)
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