Hi everyone! I'm back from visiting my boyfriend for the long weekend, and I think I'll sit down and answer all of my accumulated Arachne email now. It's a great thing to do while waiting for my Matlab program to finish running and tell me what silly programming error I've made this time...
> >True, there doesn't seem to be, although I always thought that was just > >because I've never dealt with sex in Polish. > > Possibly a vicious circle: there's no "ordinary" language to talk about > it, because nobody talks about it? I was assuming Polish people having sex with other Polish people (which I never ended up doing) do talk about it, although I might be wrong <g>. > >(of course the idea of using condoms wasn't even mentioned, since the > >Caltholic Church doesn't allow them, for no reason that I ever managed > >to understand). > > The first and foremost reason for having sex is procreation, not > pleasure; pleasure is icing on the cake, and not strictly necessary. By > using a condom, you turn that principle upside down. But then why is "contraception" by charting your cycle and only having sex during non-fertile days acceptable? > Then, too, the > Catholic Church is ruled by men, and it's men who object the most to > using condoms, so, who knows what the real reason is :) I think the assumption is that the men who rule the Catholic Church don't have sex, with or without condoms... <g> > >I don't know anything about Ann Landers either. > > Too late now; she'd dead and burried. But she used to have a syndicated > advice column, which used to be published in half the newspapers in the > US. The other half of the newspapers published the advice column > wrtitten by her twin sister (Amy van Buren? The Washington Post had Ann > Landers, so her name is more familiar to me). I used to love Ann > Landers when I first came here; her replies to all sorts of questions > (some totally bizarre) was so no-nonsense and straightforward... > Reading the column gave me many a chuckle (as well as some insight into > what "American society at large" was like). Sounds interesting... I need insight into American society. Especially since Caltech has very little in common with the rest of it, it seems. > >In the US I get in lots of conversations I'm completely lost in... > >Tamara, does this ever go away? > > No, not really. Ouch. > Plus, my asking a question about things > which are "natural" to every born-and-bread American but "obscure and > esoteric" to me, is likely to make someone's day, providing the > explanation, so, why not? Yep, that works well. Weronika (In Caltech, Pasadena, USA, once again unbearably hot from my Polish point of view) To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
