Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id RAA12928 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Fri, 17 Aug 2001 17:08:39 +0100 Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 09:06:34 -0700 From: Bill Spight <bspight@pacbell.net> Subject: Re: Callouses and Kings To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Message-id: <3B7D410A.AF4B1C37@pacbell.net> Organization: Saybrook Graduate School X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Yahoo;YIP052400} (Win95; U) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Accept-Language: en References: <2D1C159B783DD211808A006008062D3101746013@inchna.stir.ac.uk> Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
Dear Vincent,
> Because of selection. Those whose tenednecy for callouses better
> fit the environmental demands that the organism is living in, persist more
> than those that do not, which is why I'd put good money on Joe being
> absolutely right about sex workers not getting callouses on their sexual
> organs as they might make sex painful, too difficult, or make them less
> desirable to potential mates. These would all limit the chances of people
> with calloused genitalia- in comparison to other forms of callous.
Well, there are a fair number of callous pricks in the world. ;-)
Bill
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