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From: chabot@amber.DEC (L 'S' Chabot)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: Sex generally
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Date: Thu, 13-Dec-84 09:07:47 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec 13 09:07:47 1984
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pyuxc!chris  ==  >
> The cartoon shows Adam, just after being created.  He has no genitalia.  God
> looks at him and says "I think something's missing" and adds genitalia.  Adam
> looks at the addition and is pleased.  God says to him "There's just one catch
> - you can't use it." 
> Seems to me that cartoon is a good summary of society's  (the world's?) basic
> ambivalence toward sex.  We all want it, we're all biologically driven to seek
> and enjoy it, and yet we think it's wrong - at best it's naughty; at worst
> it's evil. 
> Isn't it about time we dropped that attitude?

I agree with chris's idea that we should drop the attitude he described.

But to me the cartoon says something else: woman was created as an afterthought,
after Adam's genitalia, so that Adam could use his genitalia.  So in society's
summary of the situation, woman wasn't created to be a person, just a sex
object. 

Isn't it about time we dropped *that* attitude?

L S Chabot
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