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

To: E who wrote (29648)	1/31/1999 1:28:00 PM
From: Edwarda	Respond to of 108807

More on sexuality vs prurience, the difference: A newly married couple in their bridal suite-- sexuality. The tin cans the groom's good friends tied to the bed springs-- bawdiness. The bellhop in the hall bending over and peering through the keyhole-- prurience. Thanks for a lovely illustration!

To: E who wrote (29648)	1/31/1999 2:13:00 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 108807

I agree that prurience has a negative connotation, but then, you could say the same thing about a lot of sexual things. Young men don't need stimulation, although they enjoy it. Older men need it. Most women need it, regardless of age. Thinking about it makes you want to do it. But, doing it is problematic, some don't want you to to it, so they don't want you to think about it. So, anything that makes you think about it is bad, in their eyes. I am from Louisiana, I spent a lot of time in New Orleans, I consider dressing in a sexually provocative manner to be perfectly normal, although I don't do so, ordinarily. I do on occasion wear a low cut dress, and I enjoy the attention. Looking through keyholes is an invasion of privacy, but it is also a normal human impulse. Most of us like to look, but we know that if we are caught looking though keyholes, we will be fired, maybe beaten up, maybe sued.