Subject: Re: I'm telling mom!
From: Steve Brown (ganesha@rochester.rr.com)
Date: Wed Aug 08 2001 - 19:13:46 GMT
right on...now see, some people do feel this way, and their normal!!!
Stephen J Brown
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From: "horanp" <horanp@kenyon.edu>
To: "bananafish" <bananafish@roughdraft.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2001 7:07 PM
Subject: RE: I'm telling mom!
> I suppose some of the really good kids, the ones who would report
> >people for smoking in the bathrooms, might not have been drinking in high
> >school, but even they start drinking in college.
>
>
> Hello, my name is Pete. I never drank once in high school. I despised it
when
> I saw my peers (though not my friends) indulging in it mainly because they
> thought they were about the coolest, most mature things on the planet when
> they drank. Few people I saw drank for recreational purposes or just in
> moderation (the ones that did were about the best people I ever interacted
> with). I am going on my second year of college, and I'm still "clean" as
they
> say. No drinking, no smokes, no drugs, not even sex (Wait a minute!
Isn't
> EVERYONE supposed to have sex in college?? you ask). I've talked about
the
> issue with several of my friends. They all find it deplorable that people
> take a simple act like drinking beer and a potentially beautiful and
> fulfilling act like sex and make it all a right of passage for
adolescents.
> It leaves a bad taste in my mouth about sex in general, which, for a long
> time, I have never been able to call "making love." It's always been
"sex" or
> "fucking" if you'll excuse my vernacular. With all my experiences around
> excessive drinking, it's only come off as childish, presumptuous, and
stupid.
> Completely an act, as if being more drunk is some sort of status. As for
sex
> (excuse my tangent, but I am ranting a bit), no one respects it anymore,
but
> hopefully when I marry I'll find someone who's willing to give it the
> emotional, mental, and physical reverence that sex deserves, and I pray
dearly
> that we are both happier because of it. I also hope that I don't
ejaculate
> prematurely.
>
> Pete.
>
>
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