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I wonder. I don't get the impression that the lads are ashamed of their bodies, exactly. They spend a lot of time working out, and when the results have been good (and sometimes when they haven't) the shirt will come off readily. It's the organs of generation they seem shyer about than guys of my vintage. When I was a lad, parading around starkers in the locker room was an important tribal rite. I wonder if is has something to do with the relatively recent above-groundness of gay guys? Since any given locker room is likely to have gay guys and het guys in it, as an acknowledged and accepted and unproblematic fact, does a locker room now constitute Mixed Company? A place that calls for desexualization? ------------------------------------------------------------ Or possibly, again, it's porn driven, where mere mortals compare their virile member with those of Hollywood studs. I'll say it again for the record: size doesn't matter; size doesn't matter; size doesn't matter. Got it? Joanna -- -- Michael J. Smith [email protected] http://stopmebeforeivoteagain.org http://www.cars-suck.org http://fakesprogress.blogspot.com Any proposition that seems self-evident is almost certainly false. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
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