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(...) Oddly, this is straight out of Mircea Eliade's "The Sacred and The Profane," which speaks of the investment of "sacredness" into certain places/customs/actions so that those places/customs/actions are preserved against alteration due to (...) (20 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) The article I read dealt with dysfunction related to clinical depression, and didn't describe the hormones as sex hormones specifically - so I conjecture that by "arousal hormones" it was referring to something more along the lines of (...) (20 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) When you ask the question, it requires thought--all spontaneousness reflexive action is then ignored... What would I do... Right now I think that if something was thrown at my face, I'd throw up both arms to protect my face. When someone (...) (20 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I believe sexual intercourse is an intimate bonding experience physically, emotionall, spiritually, and psychologically. It is the ultimate "giving" of oneself, and thus should be considered to be a highly meaningful experience. It should be (...) (20 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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In lugnet.admin.suggestions, Kyle D. Jackson wrote: <snip> (...) No, what I expected when I joined LUGNET, was part resource, part discussion. .space mostly. I saw it as a place to exchange building ideas and maybe a little banter. But what I got (...) (20 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, lugnet.fun.community, lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.people, lugnet.org)
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(...) If you saw that a baseball was about to smack you in your noggin from directly in front of you, would you catch/deflect it with your left or right hand? (Assuming, of course, that simple dodging was not an option). Hardly a scientific (...) (20 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) <snipp> (...) Does writing with your left hand make you left handed, or, as in my case, since I'm basically right-handed predominant except for writing (and who writes anymore, anyway) would I be considered right-handed? Dave K (20 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Plus, you've got that goofy metric system to worry about. I don't doubt your tale at all, though it reminds me of other people I've known who've made claims of ambidexterity: Usually it amounts to "I write with my right hand, and I can use a (...) (20 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I was pretty much ambidexterous when I was young--wrote with both hands until my Gr. 1 or 2 teacher (can't remember which) sat me down and told me to 'pick a hand' 'cause my printing of letters would either slant to the left or to the right, (...) (20 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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"Purple Dave" <purpledave@maskofdestiny.com> wrote in message news:I4CG4p.nt4@lugnet.com... (...) alone, but (...) and he (...) either (...) grab a (...) the (...) trained (...) I can only write with my left hand.. and only use a scissor with my (...) (20 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Apparently we're staying the course in a (URL) handbasket.> See the cat? See the cradle? Dave! (20 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) It parsed with the ancient Greeks. It was considered socially acceptable for mentors to engage in consensual acts with their also-male students, but only the passive partner was considered to be gay. Also, I've heard theories stated that the (...) (20 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Language even still reflects this, as most of us use the "right" hand, and an outmoded synonym for the left is "sinister". (...) You'd think so, but it's not completely true. Left-handers get left alone, but ambidextrous people might not. I (...) (20 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) I'd like to chime in as a biologist here: there are some situations in which sexual energy is better spent without a procreative effect. For example, if a group has limited resources. Sexual interactions among animals are not always strictly (...) (20 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Yes, typing fast. And I think you all have been handling it fine. Chris (20 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Are you discussing some certain circumstance? I know people under horomone-treatment for gender reassignment and people who've been surgically gender-reassigned and they don't report such repulsion. I know a woman who had a radical (...) (20 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Like open-mindedness. Chris (now with homosexual-tendencies!) (20 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) This is a question for anyone who has an educated opinion...I seriously don't know. Why does it seem relatively more common for women to be openly bi than men? I know lots of bi women, relatively few bi men, and more gay men than lesbians. Is (...) (20 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Yes! And it's a sad state that we should be helping to correct. :-) Chris (Who, with plent of qualifications, is serious despite the smiley.) (20 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Yeah, the few gay men that I've been pretty close friends with were all "bears" if I understand the terminology -- not at all swishy. I assumed John meant something like this: I'm straight. I decide to have e.g. anal sex with a man. Now, in (...) (20 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Isn't that pretty much exactly what you did to be WRT universal bisexuality? As a note, John, you have called me an idiot and stupid a number of times over the past few months and while I consider it crass, I let it go each time because I hope (...) (20 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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Neat, welcome ot .o-t.d, Tim :-) (...) That's a pretty big "if." There are three parts of this issues that seem noteworthy to me. First, modern disciplinary thought (well, not all of it, but the good stuff) suggests that punishment supplants the (...) (20 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Maybe we should get rid of the Clikits and Primo groups, too, since they go mostly unused. And keep your eye on Quatro and Galidor--they're both ripe for culling, by this use-it-or-lose-it criterion. Dave! (20 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Are you saying that you're a closeted Admin some of the time? How long will you persist in this dual life? Dave! (20 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) In the Western world, Victorian prudishness is the primary closeting force. But before I answer further, can you give me an ironclad reason why sexual acts must be private? And I caution you against such moral relativism as "society has (...) (20 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(I'm at a client, so it's a hassle to switch identities, but I'm wearing my Admin hat in this post) This post is not just directed at Chris. (...) To clarify. we did not censor anyone, nor did we wish to. LUGNET does not practice censorship. I (...) (20 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) <giggle> Seriously? I'm pretty sure you've read this thread...right? So, how can you say that you're not obsessed in exactly the way you're claiming not to be? _You're_ the the one raising the stink...not the LGB folks. Chris (20 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Whether you're wrong or right, what does it matter? Are you actually offended by the sexual acts that these two men might perform? Is that actually even what this is about or is this a dead end? If it really is the point, do those same acts (...) (20 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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John, I know my views are in the minority. I'm not sure what made you think that I didn't know that. (How could I not?) That doesn't make them wrong. There have been a great many people through history who had unpopular ideas that are now widely (...) (20 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) I'm a heterosexual. I'm not repulsed by seeing homosexual intercourse. I'm not turned on by it either. It just doesn't mean anything to me, probably because my particular religious upbringing never told me what I was supposed to think about (...) (20 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) There was a time when being left-handed was looked down upon. Great lengths were taken in schools to get kids to go against their nature and many were forced into writing with the right hand. Of course, society is much more grown up about this (...) (20 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) What's so interesting is that about the same percentage of the population is gay as is left-handed.... (just not the same percentages:-) JOHN (20 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Dude, the abusive husband is just a friend of my friend, I swear! ;-) JOHN (20 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) John, are you subliminally thinking of turning lesbian? Come on, fess up buddy. (20 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Well didn't you know that all left-handed people are gay? (20 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Er, the women turned to lesbianism, not the abusive husband:-/ :-) (20 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Erm, sorry, I missed that flick. (...) (shrugs) They are bi? :-) I find this topic very confusing and very inconsistent, because there always seems to be exceptions, but in doing a little googling, I just found (URL) this article> which drew (...) (20 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Ahem, no:-) The example I had in mind was actually a heterosexual women who had an abusive husband who then turned to lesbianism. JOHN (20 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Someone who's bisexual in prison isn't necessarily also bisexual outside of prison. BTW, in Kiss of the Spider Woman, do you consider the kiss between Luis and Valentin to be one of a bisexual nature or just brotherly love? I don't think the (...) (20 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Yes, for purposes of this discussion, GLBT. Gay is confusing because although many non-GLBT people use it to cover gays AND lesbians (though probably not TG people), within the community it usually means specifically gay men. That's why the L (...) (20 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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