response 22 of 84:

Dec 28 15:40 UTC 2001

Ok, that makes sense. Actually, I think most men could stand to have some sort
of intimacy (agape) therapy. I have difficulty expressing and handling
non=sexual love, and I daresay most (if not all) American men do.

response 24 of 84:

Dec 29 08:51 UTC 2001

*shrug* it might be a matter of personality type.

I'm not sure if you've heard of the color theory of organizing 
personality types, i.e., red defines those who value competition, blue 
for those who value relations and diplomacy, white nonconfrontation, 
yellow fun and excitement-- and it would seem that much of what is 
defined as masculine culture may favor the first two types of 
personalities, i.e., red and blue, and more particularly red.

From what I have read and discussed with others, the dominant drive of 
male culture *seems* to be competition.  This works really well in 
capitalistic business, and some of the mythos surrounding the founding 
of America-- rugged individualism, for example-- may foster such a 
drive.  It would therefore be difficult to surround yourself with 
those you would perceive to be rivals.

but that's one way of looking at it.

response 26 of 84:

Dec 29 18:22 UTC 2001

My impression is that workplaces with an awful lot of women can be a stressful
place to work for those women.

response 28 of 84:

Dec 31 00:14 UTC 2001

i find it odd that this "sexuality" conf is more about psychology than
sexuality with lots of sweeping gender generalizations. 

response 30 of 84:

Dec 31 01:03 UTC 2001

humans are humans. women have cunts, men have cocks. drop the guilt, stick
it where you wanna and LIKE IT.

response 32 of 84:

Dec 31 03:26 UTC 2001

I vote yes!

response 34 of 84:

Dec 31 17:18 UTC 2001

or stops bothering to call you a pedophile:)
but yha, it's all about the squishy luv thing
or at least about how fucked up you are

response 36 of 84:

Dec 31 21:54 UTC 2001

and I suppose it can be amusing sometimes to think senna meant 
something more when he said "more meat to it."

But seriously, I think we get enough of the joking and crude comments 
that may come from misinformation about sex, or perhaps the attitudes 
that surround various taboos.  We're just attempting to talk 
intelligently without feeling the need to coat it with raunch.

However, analyzing the issues to death is extreme in the other 
direction; thus, I suppose, we attempt to discuss without psychobabble 
or detached clinical stances.  Honesty is good, but I think we are 
trying to find a balance.

response 38 of 84:

Jan 3 23:05 UTC 2002

does he keeo the cock?

response 40 of 84:

Apr 3 01:56 UTC 2002

I have a question.

Does anyone besides jaklumen have a clue what Exodus International is/does?

Everyone's doing it, I'll add a website:  www.bridges-across.org

response 42 of 84:

Apr 3 03:59 UTC 2002

Exodus International teaches gays to be straight.

response 44 of 84:

Apr 3 15:19 UTC 2002

        This is terribly, terribly un-PC, but I think I have a handle on
another reason the idea of reparative therapy might be reasonable.  I've run
into quite a number of people, personally, who have attractions to both
genders, but have had such strained relations, or one sufficiently strained
relation, with the opposite gender they've turned solely to the same gender.
Oftentimes they overly strongly identify with their new preference, touting
to the world that they're gay, as if in an effort to convince themselves.
I can't see a reason why curing those problems, and those strained relations,
through therapy *wouldn't* be a good thing.

response 46 of 84:

Apr 3 21:02 UTC 2002

do they reparative therapy for those who want to go from straight to gay?