The love that won't shut up

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My little contribution, from THIRD WORLD by E.A. Lacey (UT Grad student in
Linguistics, early 1060s):

On Definitions

And if they ask you, are you straight or gay?
Say "Boys, I'm stray."

(Note: This is not a flower or tree, evidently - perhaps a fruit.)


If you'd like a download of the book I edited of his travel poems I'll
shoot you one.
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> Michael-- Please elucidate! Neither of your statements makes that much
> sense
> to me, although I could well imagine if one were raised in an environment
> in
> which everyone  were doing straight sex and gay sex frequently and
> alternatively, or only gay sex (as in a prison), then one might get
> involved
> with the action-- that's simple comformity to the social norm, a common
> human trait!
>
> I'm not sure what that has to do with priests, however, who are in an
> environment in which sex is verbotten, although they do have a lot of
> control over vulnerable youth.
>
> Almost everyone has some opportunity for sex, but some people tend to seek
> out such opportunities more so than others. These are the persons with a
> larger "drive" for sex, be they gay or straight in their natural
> orientation. Clearly people with a "gay" orientation will tend to place
> themselves in situations where gay sex is possible, as will heterosexuals,
> unless they are very repressed  in their natural drive.
>
> Jon
>
>>From: Michael Eisenstadt <michaele@ando.pair.com>
>>Reply-To: austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net
>>To: austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net
>>Subject: oops!
>>Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2004 17:12:09 -0600
>>
>>Frances,
>>
>>I just wrote:
>>
>>Not too surprisingly, one's degree of
>>homosexuality is a function of opportunity,
>>thus sailors, prisoners and priests have a
>>higher Kinsey number than they would
>>otherwise have had pari passu.
>>
>>I realize now that I meant to say:
>>
>>Not too surprisingly, one's degree of
>>sexuality is a function of opportunity, thus
>>sailors, prisoners and priests have a higher
>>Kinsey homosexual number than they would
>>otherwise have had pari passu.
>>
>>Mike
>>
>
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