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From: dsn@tove.UUCP (Dana S. Nau)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: Just how far can friendship go?
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Date: Wed, 10-Jul-85 14:29:37 EDT
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In article <800@vax2.fluke.UUCP> cassidy@fluke.UUCP (Rion Cassidy) writes:
>
> ... if you're 'snuggling' and hugging someone of the opposite
>sex, yet not having any sexual contact, this isn't just a close friend (like
>one of the same sex) and you're probably denying yourself of something you 
>really want.

There is a cartoon (I think it appeared in the New Yorker) which shows a man
and woman talking, and one of them is saying "Do you think anyone suspects
we aren't sleeping with each other?"

I have a girlfriend, and we lead pretty independent lives.  She has some
(non-romantic) male friends whom she sees occasionally, and I have some
(non-romantic) female friends whom I see occasionally.  In a few cases, this
has involved hugging or kissing.  Sometimes I have felt a desire to take
things farther.  I don't act on such feelings--but I think they're kind of
fun!
-- 
Dana S. Nau,  Computer Science Dept.,  U. of Maryland,  College Park, MD 20742
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