bllklly@uwmacc.UUCP (Bill Kelly) (09/21/84)
[hurv ......@ !!!!]
George Alec Effinger is a wonderful, if slightly odd, writer. Actually a
lot of his work isn't really SF, but this excerpt is from Fantasy & Science
Fiction, October 84. And it discusses the only aspect of relationships
never covered in net.singles: sex as bowling!
[Luis is the U.S. secretary of defense. Hurv is a nuhp, a race of friendly
but somewhat overbearing aliens.]
Hurv: Bowling is the most enjoyable thing a person can do.
Luis: What about sex?
Hurv: Bowling *is* sex. Bowling is a symbolic form of intercourse,
except you don't have to bother about the feelings of some other
person. Bowling is sex without guilt. Bowling is what people
have wanted down through all the millenia: sex without the
slightest responsibility. It's the very distillation of the
essence of sex. Bowling is sex without fear and shame.
Luis: Bowling is sex without pleasure.
[There was a brief silence.]
Hurv: You mean that when you put that ball right into the pocket and see
those pins explode right off the alley, you don't have an orgasm?
Luis: Nope.
Hurv: *That's* your problem, then. I can't help you there, you'll have
to see some kind of therapist.
--
Bill Kelly
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er, how it's spelled: Danger!"