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From: Lise Maring <Lmaring@qssmeds.com>
To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2000 4:04 PM
Subject: Re: Memes and sexuality
> Hmmm. Touchy subject here. Possibly it needs to be remembered that for
> most 'animals' sexual activity is seasonal whereas for humans (and
possibly
> most primates?) it is....well, not necessarily so. I have a feeling we
> wouldn't get much else done if we didn't repress our 'natural drives' to
> some extent and had males constantly fighting over females? Very
> disruptive in your average business office.
<< Didn 't you see by chance a serie hosted by Desmond Morris !?
I think he wouldn 't agree with you supposing that males don 't fight all
the time over females !
After all, we are all peacocks, remerber, the way we dress up, move, the
car we drive,...are all in some extend ways to impress the females, the
other way is of course also possible !
We fight all the time, but we do it now in a subtle way.
Oh yeah, what about the ' dirty talk ' (jokes, little remarks, sneers etc;
between man (and woman) that is also ' a way of fighting '. Everybody
makes him- or herself attractice for the upper sex, he/she dresses up like
he/she is somebody who looks for somebody, or he/ she is somebody
dressed up like he/ she wants to be found...
Regards,
Kenneth
(I am, because we are )
> Just a quiet, in-the-background member of the list who couldn't resist
> putting in her two cents worth on this one,
>
> Lise
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