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From: jpexg@mit-hermes.ARPA (John Purbrick)
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Subject: Re: Re: Its a bad law
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Date: Tue, 8-Jan-85 15:23:50 EST
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In article <216@talcott.UUCP> gjk@talcott.UUCP (Greg Kuperberg) writes:
>Actually, the problem is much worse than that.  Almost half of us have
>commited genocide by masturbating.
>---

> I think you are underestimating the extent of the *problem*.  According to
> the last statistics I saw, the figure is about 50% for women and over 90% 
> for men, giving a composite average of about 70% for the population.  I
> don't have the reference handy, though.  I thought the Masters and Johnson
> was right here next to my Knuth ... I guess Tom Westberg must have borrowed
> it ...
> 
> 					Alien

No, no, no--Onan "spilled his seed upon the ground" but a woman gets one seed a
month; use it or lose it, but losing it isn't genocide no matter what else she
gets up to.