LRC.Throop@UTEXAS-20.ARPA (07/26/84)
From: David Throop <LRC.Throop@UTEXAS-20.ARPA>
[Forwarded from the UTexas-20 bboard by Laws@SRI-AI.]
"Due to the increase in the number of herpes cases reported, the staff at
the Student Health Center suggests that people limit themselves to a finite
number of sexual partners." -Daily Texan, September '83
We decided at the time that two monuments were in order. One is for the guy
that has had a denumerably infinite number of sexual partners. But the other,
still bigger monument would be for the guy that has had a nondenumerably
infinite number of sexual partners.
But we were curious. Who are these guys? And where do they get off?
The guy that has had a denumerably infinite number of partners is obvious.
He's the guy that slept with everyone now living, who has ever lived or who
ever will live. But the other guy?
Our investigations show that this guy is into group sex. He's the one that
has slept with the power set of everyone now living, who has ever lived or who
ever will live.
But that leaves us with an unanswered question. Consider a woman named
Polly who has slept with both these guys. The first guy has slept with Polly,
while the other guy has, strictly, slept with the singlton set containing only
Polly.
Which should be more satisfying?