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From: drennan@nybcb.UUCP
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Subject: Sex Objects
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Date: Wed, 19-Dec-84 14:36:29 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec 19 14:36:29 1984
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In  <9700016@acf4.UUCP> Ross Greenberg defines a sex object:

> That, to me, means being treated basically as a set of genitilia walking
> around whose sole purpose in life is to have sex with the "admirer".
> Forget about brains, intelligence, personality.....forget about anything
> other than the genitilia.  Think of them only as genitilia on legs.

> Now that's *A* definition of a sex object....And I know of noone who has ever
> treated someone like that.  Does anybody??


> Ross M. Greenberg  @ NYU   ---->  allegra!cmcl2!acf4!greenber  <----


	Sure I know people who have treated other people as objects, 
sexual or otherwise.  To treat a person as an object is to use them as a
means to further some end of yours, without regard to what it means to the
person being so treated.  To treat someone as a sexual object is to view
them as a means of fulfilling your own sexual enjoyment.

	I've certainly seen a lot of people treat others that way, while I
was an undergrad at Columbia, and now when I'm a grad at NYU.  Go to any
college party, and you'll see someone pickup someone else with the the sole
purpose of getting laid that Saturday night.  And these are enlightened
people, in Mr. Greenberg's sense of the word.  Sure, maybe after they have
sated their sexual appetite for the evening, they might not treat the other
person as an object, but they certainly did before.

	People treating other people as objects (of any sort) happens all
the time in our society.

						Jim Drennan
	"I resemble that remark."		New York Blood Center
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