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To: Ilaine who wrote (43211)	7/2/1999 10:22:00 PM
From: E	Respond to of 108807

What you wrote seems very sensible to me. It's interesting-- I became sexually active relatively late; and was always sorta sorry I waited so long. (Not really late; but not early, either.) I was never exploited.

To: Ilaine who wrote (43211)	7/2/1999 10:39:00 PM
From: jbe	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

Re: "the downside of what is really male liberation" Aha! You've hit the nail on the head, Blue! I have always felt that the so-called "sexual revolution" benefited males more than females. Frankly, what the "sexual revolution" meant for young males, especially young teen-aged males, that they no longer had to walk around with a perpetual hard-on; they could find relief, and an ideological justification for it. (Sorry to be so coarse, but that is exactly the way I have heard young males put it.) And remember when the young folk started openly living "in sin"? (Before the '60's, that was frowned upon by almost everyone.) In my observation, that meant, all too often, that the man got all the advantages of matrimony (free sex, free maid service, free meals) but none of the responsibilities. Yet women have gotten something out of it, though. Something less tangible, but perhaps more important. And that is that if they "slip," or if they "live in sin," they are no longer shunned as "fallen women." In the boarding house I lived in during my college days in Washington, I had a roommate from Mississippi, who used to love reading True Confessions magazines. Well, in those days, the "confessions" were all the same. A girl "sins" once. Just once. And of course she gets pregnant. And of course she is covered with shame. Only after many years of whatever, is an honest man willing to take her on... And of course my Mississippi roommate was in despair, because the soldier she had "sinned" with no longer wanted to marry her (because she was no longer a "good" girl in his mind). I don't think she was pregnant, though... Joan

To: Ilaine who wrote (43211)	7/3/1999 3:42:00 AM
From: Bob Lao-Tse	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

Well... First, I recognize the difference in the dynamics of adolescent sex when dealing with girls as opposed to boys. However, I still believe that the appropriate way to deal with this is, rather than to try to enforce an unenforceable abstinence, to try all that we can to make sure that by the time they are physically mature enough to have sex they are also emotionally mature enough to have sex. And second, as a member of the penis-bearing gender, I would like to apologize on behalf of those of my brethren who exploited you. But again, this is something that would best be dealt with by doing all that we can to instill in adolescents the necessary emotional maturity to deal with the desires that they will feel. I'm not sure what else to say.