evans@wivax.UUCP (Barry Evans) (11/02/83)
Re: >It is not clear to me that net.motss will be a very positive
>source of information for you, judging from what I have seen so far.
I guess I kind of have to disagree on this, at least partially. Right now
as it is, net.motss is not helping any closeted gays very much. It doesn't
have to be this way. Probably the hardest part of "coming out" is for
the individual to accept themselves. Once this is done, they can accept
advise from others, reach out and ask those questions which they've kept
bottled up for so long. This net (net.motss) can be an ideal place for
people to do this. Often, people fear talking about being gay to others
simply because society deems it as being "wrong", hence, they aren't
*supposed* to be that way. There's nothing like peer pressure to really
screw things up. This newsgroup offers a semi-anonymous setting where
people can speak out and ask such things - there are even people who
will post for the others who wish more anonymousity [is that a word?].
Given some time, people will speak up - maybe some encouragement would help
them out a bit... And, even if they don't ask, they *will* be listening.
-barry
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Barry Evans {decvax,linus}!wivax!evans
Wang Institute (617) 649-9731 x383schoff@bbncca.ARPA (Martin Schoffstall) (11/04/83)
I would like to know where the figure of %70 came from! I think if you talked to some real Christians (word&deed) on a personal level you would find most of them (if they are married) to have really excellant sex lives. Why? For one they don't have to worry about syphillis/herpes/AIDS. The second reason is the fact that a principle from the BIBLE teaches us that real love is not taking but giving, this shows up in their sex life. The last thing is commitment, most Christian marriages have a large commitment index, they work over the months/years to have a good sex life for the other person. No, we don't just masturbate and feel guilty. We have very excellant sex lives. !decvax!bbncca!schoff schoff@bbnu
jack@hp-dcde.UUCP (11/10/83)
#R:allegra:-192400:hp-dcde:30700001:000:185 hp-dcde!jack Nov 8 17:53:00 1983 Ignoring schoff's bible-thumping flaming, the question remains: Where did the figure of 70% (have tried it, Lance says) come from??? -Jack Applin (hplabs!hp-dcd!jack)