Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!zehntel!dual!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-amber!chabot From: chabot@amber.DEC (L 'S' Chabot) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re: Sex generally Message-ID: <236@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Thu, 13-Dec-84 09:07:47 EST Article-I.D.: decwrl.236 Posted: Thu Dec 13 09:07:47 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 15-Dec-84 02:35:31 EST Sender: daemon@decwrl.UUCP Organization: DEC Engineering Network Lines: 24 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 UUCP: ...decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-amber!chabot ARPA: ...chabot%amber.DEC@decwrl.ARPA shadow: [ISSN 0018-9162 v17 #10 p7, bottom vt100, col3, next to next to last]