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To: nihil who wrote (31354)	2/20/1999 9:45:00 PM
From: epicure	Respond to of 108807

You have an odd habit of overlooking things- like CAMP FOLLOWERS- no great army of the past travelled without whores (some armies even traveled with wives)- the same can be said of todays military- just look what the American military culture did to the Philippines where the army and the people were in close contact. So necessity does not breed homosexuality in most armies. Maybe on ships- where women WERE in short supply- except perhaps for Captains who were sometimes allowed to take their wives.

To: nihil who wrote (31354)	2/20/1999 11:26:00 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

You seem to have confined yourself to art in the visual form-- so I am uncertain if you believe your thesis about genius holds true for the other arts as well. Surely admiration and even arousal can be felt by anyone for beauty in either sex; I fail to see that that equates with homosexuality-or even bisexuality. Or maybe I just don't see the need to define oneself as any of these. I'm feeling from you some sort of pressure to have to declare oneself on a more sexual level than I think is required to admire the incredible glory of all creation. I may be unjust in saying this, nihil, and if so, I beg your pardon, but you seem to believe your personal opinions represent an enlightened and somehow superior moral stand because of your "freedom" from the normal societal strictures. As if those who behold great art and are not moved in the same way as you are somehow repressed or lacking. As if those who conform to their own codes of morality and ethics are ignorant and undeveloped. Does this happen to those who teach young impressionable minds for many years? Do they begin to see themselves as rather godlike in their infinite wisdom?