Digital Archaeology: Floppy Disk #10 – SPEDEL.DOC


A summary for those that haven’t been keeping up with this series:

I found a number of 5.25″ disks at a thrift store a number of years ago. I finally got around to acquiring a 5.25″ disk drive and extracting the contents a while back. Since then I have been posting the contents here.

Based on the contents, at least some of these disks were apparently once owned by someone named Connie who used to run the “Close Encounters” Special Interest Group (SIG) on Delphi in the mid 1980s.

A specific definition of this SIG was found in a document on one of the disks: “This SIG, known as ‘Close Encounters’, is a forum for the discussion of relationships that develop via computer services like the Source, CompuServe, and Delphi. Our primary emphasis is on the sexual aspects of those relationships.”

This service was text based and was accessed via whatever terminal program you used on your computer to dial in to Delphi’s servers. Many of these disks have forum messages, e-mails and chat session logs. All of this is pre-internet stuff and I don’t know if there are any archives in existence today of what was on Delphi in the 1980s. In any case, much of this stuff would have been private at the time and probably wouldn’t be in such archives even if they existed.

This post includes the contents of SPEDEL.DOC dated October 27th, 1985. This appears to be a response to a question about sexual positions.

See the previous post here.

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 WOW!

 You are presenting a chalanging question!

 I guess the first thing that comes to mind that I would share is that
 anything as intimate as sexual positions must be the mutual adventure
 of BOTH partners and never be something imposed by one on the other.

 The next thing is that whatever objection one partner has to a
 particular sexual position, act, or anything shared that objection
 should be recognized as a valid one and that objection answered by
 BOTH and an agreement hopefully reached!

 Now for the question as to positions NOT liked.

 I am going to NOT be specific but say that there several positions I
 find unfavorable for reasons of discomfort,  not expressive of love and passion, or just not
 possible for me to perform!

 In all of the cases above I feel justified in my objections and trust
 my partner will be respective of my objections.

 In my history such objections were sometimes NOT respected and that
 can cause something that may be between or a combination of
 humiliation and pain to my person or ego.

 I hope I NEVER cause that discomfort for my Love!

 I hope that posses some answer or support for you and anyone else.

 Rodm
^Z

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