On Sun, 24 Oct 1999, Steve Kudlak wrote:
> This seems like silly humour to me. I would to see the original articles, if
> someone is going to present a critique. I don't know....I mean some things seem
more of a composite of Anthro/Women's Studies 316 discussion related to a
few books, in particular one (Nisa) examining the native South African
!Kung population, who had very laxed sexual taboos compared to our own,
and no concept of virginity, and close to no domestic violence... quite a
few things were going well for the Kung, and maybe they just didn't have
some of the wierd hangups that we do...
compare that to our next work about conservative islamic society where
14-24 year old women regularly marry men 5-10 years older than they
are, because... there needs to be proof of virginity, and a bride
absolutely must be virginal or the whole familly's honor is screwed
over...
I think America and the emerging global culture is somewhere in the middle
of those two... but which one would work for us?
> over done like, conflict. SO I am reluctant to ask when people say "pedophilia"
> do they sleeping with(having as lover) a 17 year old, a 17 years old female
> human 17 year old female human 17 year old guy human, 17 if you are more than
I was thinking more in terms of older men who want a virginal young girl
(no matter what age), if you absolutely have to break into legalism pick
an age of consent law, most of them seem fairly rational and cover logical
exeptions well... a few are restrictive, but it's never been my biggest
worry...
I think it kind of applies to geek culture... thinking about the Infoseek
CEO's adventures a few weeks ago and /.'s apparent obsession with
subservient non-geek women, it seems like "issues" is a fine place to talk
about it... as well as allong the lines of "objectification"
and I'd rather chat about this stuff with my peers, rather than anthro
grad students or professors... (which takes a greater time investment
and doesn't bring up many fresh ideas)
-mekD
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