Re: "You can break a thousand..." Confused by Delany interview.

Lewis Murphy <[email protected]> Mon, 20 Dec 2010 08:28:36 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.culture.sf.delany
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On 12/19/2010 10:47 PM, Jay Schuster wrote:
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>  SRD's number of lifetime sexual partners is only staggering when
>  viewed in the context of today's post-AIDS world, or in the context
>  of heterosexuality. Gay sex in the 70s and early 80s was different.
>  You couldn't get pregnant and the worst disease you could get was
>  curable with a shot. So why not have as much sex as you could?
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>  -- Jay
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Though not likely to match numerically, heterosexual practice was much 
more free then as well, until Herpes.

Lewis


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