early@tonto.DEC (the higher we climb, the better the view) (01/06/86)
Newsgroups: net.social Subject: re: Whats Going On >About the 70% of married men that fool around, the statistics >sound right to me, but I wonder how many married women also fool around? This response hooked me a little bit, and set me to thinking. "Historically", it seeems, men have more often been the braggers, and the women (shy,demure little creatures they were) seldom publicly bragged about how many men they went to bed with (for sex). By backfitting this concept, to the question at hand, how many women would admit to "fooling around" outside their current relationship ? (See,I even included POSSLQ's (Persons Of Opposite Sex Sharing Living Quarters). I found an article by some woman in California that lead(s) seminars for married women who wished to learn how to successfully "cheat" on their husbands, using a technique: The theory was (is), that after many months of meetings, hubby would get used to the wife coming and going several times a week (4-6), and the stage is set for her to slip out with someone else (note: someone else ... not necessarily a man). The significance of all this to the topic, she was (is) the type of person that would never "admit" to cheating. After this lengthy bit, back to the question: How many women would admit (social stigma that it is) to "cheating on their husbands (or SO's). ".. sadder but wiser ... ", dammit BTW: If a married woman engages in homosexual activity, does this constitute adultery ? Cheating ? bob early (Dec E-Net) TONTO::EARLY) (UUCP) decvax!decwrl!dec-rhea!tonto!early
pete@valid.UUCP (Pete Zakel) (01/15/86)
> (Persons Of Opposite Sex Sharing Living Quarters).
This is my own personal gripe, and I don't know if anyone will agree with me,
but here goes:
I don't like the term "opposite sex" for referring to someone of the alternate
gender. How 'bout "complementary gender"? Or even "complementary sex"?
(The last one even sounds fun! :-) I have never noticed anything "opposite"
about males and females (or men and women). Even the names are not "opposite".
Even "alternate sex" would be an improvement as far as I am concerned.
(Personally, I think the word "sex" should only refer to the act, not the
gender of a person, but I'll be happy with only one change right now.)
-Pete Zakel (..!{hplabs,amd,pyramid,ihnp4}!pesnta!valid!pete)booter@lll-crg.ARpA (Elaine Richards) (01/16/86)
Re: POSSLQs. I prefer to refer to mine by his name. Conservative folk assume he is my lawful whatever and more hip people don't care. Re: Opposite sex. I always liked Damon Runyons "Guys and Dolls" :-) "Opposite sex" is ludicrous because so many people are gay or bi. How about "Potential Lovers" or "Targets of my steaming lust"? No? Oh.. sorry. In Logic 1000 I learned the opposite of a statement is a contradiction. How about contradictory gender. Hmm....I can see people scratching their heads and saying "twisted." Know where I can get good Chicago pizza in SF or Oakland? How about those Mets? E *****
rjw@ptsfc.UUCP (Rod Williams) (01/16/86)
>Re: POSSLQs. I prefer to refer to mine by his name. Conservative folk >assume he is my lawful whatever and more hip people don't care. Whatever happened to the old, reliable 'MOTAS' (member of the appropriate sex) and 'SO' (significant other), both of which are generic enough terms to encompass every...well...most (:-)) affectional preferences? -- rod williams | {ihnp4,dual}!ptsfa!ptsfc!rjw ------------------------------------------- pacific bell | san ramon | california