Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihuxi.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!hou3c!hocda!houxm!ihnp4!ihuxi!cher From: cher@ihuxi.UUCP (Mike Musing) Newsgroups: net.religion Subject: Re: Jeff Sargent, sex Message-ID: <1098@ihuxi.UUCP> Date: Wed, 19-Sep-84 19:09:46 EDT Article-I.D.: ihuxi.1098 Posted: Wed Sep 19 19:09:46 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 25-Sep-84 06:14:43 EDT References: <171@usfbobo.UUCP>, <894@houxm.UUCP> <1180@pucc-h>, <1186@pucc-h>, <1214@pucc-h> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 20 > I think your former lover answered the question, and I agree that there are > different flavors of sex. The thing is, as I understand it, the second of > these ignores the fact that sex is intended as a total union between two > people, not just as the stimulation of two bodies. It is this second > approach to sex which dehumanizes it. > > -- Jeff Sargent Hate to be picky, but why is sex "intended as a total union ..."? Neither holy books, nor Darvin said anything of that kind. I can add that I think sex still remains "stimulation of ...". It is your feelings towards your partner that make it so very special for you ONLY. Same act can be viewed as ultimate union, or whatever, by one party, and as an average lay by another. It seems that either your distinction is not meaningful, or you just not phrasing it right Mike Musing