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"L. Jonathan Kramer, P.E." <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 17 Jan 1996 02:32:02 EST
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Kathy D. wrote on Mon, 8 Jan 1996 07:23:52 -0600:
>Why is this so threatening to men, to learn that it is cultural?  Most
>people get threatened when you tell them something is genetic/biological --
>like mental illnesses.  They prefer to think they are cultural/learned/under
>their own control.  But when it comes to breasts, they find it threatening
>to think that something they feel so strongly in their guts was learned.

I don't find it at all threatening.  I think most of my sexual response is
emotional,
and thus that is necessarily cultural.  In our culture, how could it be
otherwise?

Jonathan

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