Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site dartvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!dcdwest!ittvax!decvax!dartvax!mwm From: mwm@dartvax.UUCP (M. W. Modrall) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re: the kate hepburn interview... Message-ID: <2493@dartvax.UUCP> Date: Fri, 19-Oct-84 04:09:24 EDT Article-I.D.: dartvax.2493 Posted: Fri Oct 19 04:09:24 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 21-Oct-84 14:21:06 EDT Organization: Dartmouth College Lines: 26 i just started reading net.singles this week, and until the kate hepburn article, i hadn't felt motivated to post anything... but here goes... any of you who saw REDS w/ Warren Beatty et al, may remember a quote from one of the interludes where they were interviewing a balding old famous personage... "There was just as much fucking going on then as there is now, only now there's a perverse nature to it." i think that that pretty well sums it up.... recent generations didn't invent sex, and until the past 20 years, no one talked about it enough to wonder when was too early to start as for being mature enough to handle it... since when was age an iron-clad requirement for maturity??? i've known 40-year-old 12-year-olds and 12-year-old 40-year-olds... some people are never really "mature" enough to handle it, but everyone eventually tries sex ("everyone" meaning the vast majority, of course)... personally, i think that i was ready for it, but my partner was not... but then that was her choice... as Lazarus Long said "No regrets." it's irrevocable once it's done, so dont waste time on spilt milk... mwm Dartmouth College