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From: jeff@rtech.UUCP (Jeff Lichtman)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: When are you a man/woman?
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Date: Tue, 1-Oct-85 03:10:22 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct  1 03:10:22 1985
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> 
> As for changing from girl to woman:  One old rule of thumb was that if
> you're no longer virgin, you're a woman.  There's generally an assumption
> that a woman is the adult version of a girl (and presumably you shouldn't
> start having sex until you're mature enough to know what you're doing), which
> seems to fit this.
> --Lee Gold

While it's true that one shouldn't have sex until one is mature enough to
handle it, but it doesn't follow that having sex turns one into an adult.
This "old rule of thumb" has been used on many high-school girls in the
back seats of cars.
-- 
Jeff Lichtman at rtech (Relational Technology, Inc.)
"Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent..."

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