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

To: Ilaine who wrote (37558)	5/9/1999 9:25:00 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

I don't think she liked sex- I think she liked control. And she saw sex as a way of controlling men, which it is. But it works better if you are young and attractive. Her sex scenes are ludicrous, clumsy, and ...well..silly. Her characters are passionless droids- they declaim their passion, passionlessly. Awful writing by a woman who obviously thought up a philosophy she could feel comfortable with, and since she was obviously an odd cold unwomanly woman, we get the odd cold anit-intuitive, anti-female philosophy of Ayn.

To: Ilaine who wrote (37558)	5/9/1999 9:36:00 PM
From: Edwarda	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 108807

Actually, Barbara wrote in The Passion of Ayn Rand that she and Nathaniel Branden were not particularly attracted to each other and that their "unease" was "irrational" to Rand. Here's another interesting tidbit: According to Samuel Francis, when Rand learned that the wife of the economist, Murray Rothbard, was a devout Christian, she all but ordered that if his wife, Joey, did not see the light and become an atheist in six months, Rothbard, who was an agnostic, must divorce her. Rothbard never had any intention of doing such a thing--and this estranged him from Rand, who found such "irrational" behavior intolerable.

To: Ilaine who wrote (37558)	5/10/1999 3:57:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

>It is curious to me, that men would prefer to have sex with a pretty women who doesn't like sex than a plain woman who does.< Once over suitable malt beverage I discussed this with a colleague in the biochemical sciences. He and I agreed that while structure was nice - it was to be subordinated to activity! So while I'm sure all men let their heads be turned by a Tight Little Unit - many would not want to pursue it beyond a casual thought about "wonder if it works as good as it looks". If I had to choose - I'd want it to "work good".