Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 (Tek) 9/28/84 based on 9/17/84; site azure.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!mtuxo!mtunh!mtung!mtunf!ariel!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!teklds!azure!chrisa From: chrisa@azure.UUCP (Chris Andersen) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re: Just how far can friendship go? Message-ID: <331@azure.UUCP> Date: Mon, 8-Jul-85 05:02:30 EDT Article-I.D.: azure.331 Posted: Mon Jul 8 05:02:30 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 11-Jul-85 06:35:11 EDT References: <317@azure.UUCP> <2910@cornell.UUCP> Reply-To: chrisa@azure.UUCP (Chris Andersen) Distribution: net Organization: Tektronix, Beaverton OR Lines: 20 Summary: In article <2910@cornell.UUCP> rance@cornell.UUCP (W. Rance Cleaveland) writes: >most people. In the relationship you describe, the possibility of sex, if there >to begin with, was certainly extremely remote, and hence neither of you felt >under pressure to live up (or down) to the sexual expectations of the other. >Thus freed from sexual anxiety, it sounds to me as though you were able to >attend to each other's need for affection without worrying about whether things >should "get out of hand" (to borrow a phrase from "St. Elmo's Fire). >Unfortunately in most relationships, the sexual ambiguity remains present, so >there is always a mild level of tension anytime the celebrants engage in any >physical contact.... Fortunately, we came to an understanding on the first day we met, so there was no worry about where "the relationship" was heading. Life, Love, Laughter, And the compulsory hug, Chris Andersen