Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!ittvax!bunker!garys From: garys@bunker.UUCP (Gary Samuelson) Newsgroups: net.abortion Subject: Is Abstinence Abnormal? Message-ID: <505@bunker.UUCP> Date: Wed, 22-Aug-84 10:52:18 EDT Article-I.D.: bunker.505 Posted: Wed Aug 22 10:52:18 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 23-Aug-84 06:58:16 EDT Lines: 20 Brian Peterson makes the following comment: > If you say that abstinence is > a perfectly good way to be ignorant and "responsible" at the same time, > let me respond by saying that Mama Nature has cleverly designed people so > that abstinence is unthinkable for normal people) First, abstinence does not imply or require ignorance; you could be informed, responsible, and abstinent (<-- one of those words which never looks right, but I looked it up). Second, I guess you are a creationist who believes in a female deity. :-) Third, and most important, I contest the statement that "abstinence is unthinkable for normal people." No doubt it depends on your definition of "normal," but I reject the notion that someone who abstains from sexual intercourse is necessarily not "normal." Gary Samuelson ittvax!bunker!garys