jvenner@wateng.UUCP (Jason P. Venner) (10/14/83)
I saw this article in a local newspaper about 2.5 weeks ago. I make no comments, it speaks for itself. ***************************************************************** Free-love advocate now counsels women to wait Special to The Record NEW YORK -- Sexual freedom champion Erica Jong now asserts that women should withhold sex until marriage to motivate men to be- come better partners. "Maybe women in the 19th century who said, `Don't give away sex for free until your married' had something on the ball," Jong states in the October issue of Glamour magazine. "I can just see my (five-year-old) daughter's generation saying, `I'm not go- ing to give it (sex) away. I'm going to wait until I'm taken care of.'" Behind Jong's case for virginity is a felling that men now have no motivation to become better partners. "It's really not incum- bent upon men to be good providers in order to get a woman. They can get a woman anyway. They can get all the sex they want any- way. The man will always find somebody else," says the author of the best seller, Fear Of Flying. "Men have no trouble at all letting women support them," Jong states. "It's almost like a joke. I mean, we've liberated our- selves to being like lionesses. We have babies, we pay the bills, we tale care of the houses, and then we treat men as if we were courtesan and take care of them." Why do so many women stay home Saturday nights? According to Jong, "we're living in a transitional time when women are much stronger than men. There are many strong, terrific and there are a lot of men who are very confused about there roles; There real- ly is a shortage of equal partners. "I would like to be able to have a very calm and settled rela- tionship with somebody who is really a partner and an equal -- who either start ed an an equal or became one in the evolution of the evolution of the relationship," Jong says. "I think it is possible." ***************************************************************** I hope you find this an interesting article. If I get many re- plies I will sumarize them. Jason P. Venner Terran, Human:(XY) -- yours sincerely, Jason P. Venner uucp: : physical mail: (jvenner@wateng) : Integrated Studies, (watmath!wateng!jvenner) : University of Waterloo, (allegra!watmath!wateng!jvenner) : Waterloo, Ontario., (decvax!watmath!wateng!jvenner) : Canada. : N2L 3G1