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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jbe who wrote (43245)	7/3/1999 12:08:00 AM
From: Grainne	Respond to of 108807

I would encourage that all babies be breast fed until they are totally sated. I think unfulfilled oral fixations lead to very sexually neurotic and generally needy people. I would make psychological evaluations of children mandatory at age three, the way I understand they do in France, so that children who are not healthy, and their families, be identified and helped before the children turn out all messed up. I would teach sex education consistently throughout school, with all the alternatives, but with an emphasis of abstinence AND readily available condoms for teenagers. I would create (zap, magic!) a world which was a little less materialistic, stressed and messed up, so that parents could spend more time with their children, and the society was not so "throw away". Of course, all of this is impossible--I am not delusional!

To: jbe who wrote (43245)	7/3/1999 12:10:00 AM
From: Achilles	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

I often wonder, however, jbe, whether the existence of such articles and shows don't actually show that we are not really permissive at all. Jerry Springer becomes a morality play, reinforcing normalcy in the audience by showing the grotesque side of 'permissivenes'. In fact most of us are still repressed, feeling like we're the only ones not 'getting any'. Or maybe it's just me. ;-)

To: jbe who wrote (43245)	7/3/1999 2:06:00 AM
From: epicure	Respond to of 108807

Aren't Americans really very repressed? I mean sex is commercialized, packaged, and presented to us in a very limited format in the media. We are not presented with real sex, or at least not with loving sex among non-perfect adult humans, we are bombarded with images of lust, youth, and perfect bodies coupling in never ending perfect sex. I wonder if this does not actually discourage most people (especially women) and actually become a repressive force- because it would be impossible to live up to the media standards set for women having sex. Even the models can't measure up without really great makeup and fine lighting. I am sure men feel inadequate too- but one sees many more older males with young females in the media than the other way around. In fact movies with love scenes involving anyone female over 30 are few and far between.