At 10:03 PM 10/30/96 -0600, Nightelf wrote:

Richard Lawson wrote:

Maybe we need to take a poll.

ATTENTION FFML'ers:  If you suddenly found yourself turned into the
opposite sex, down to the level of your chromosones, and such a change
was IRREVERSIBLE, would you:

A)  Keep your body AND your sexual preference;

B)  Keep your body and CHANGE your sexual preference;

C)  Have surgery to return your body to its former gender;

D)  Other (please state);

E)  Bap Lawson for asking you such a stupid question?

Mutliple answers are allowed.  :)  If you want to make comments, I'll
publish them along with the results.

Oh well.  Might as well answer this thing.  A or B, depending on who the 
"right" person is.  Love, the kind of love that sticks, is an intimate 

But what if you haven't met the "right" person yet?

_friendship_ between people, not genders.  Most of the people here that 
I've heard from on this ML have forgotten that.  We've been clouding the 
issue so much with sex, that we've forgotten what love is.  

It's not that we're more concerned with love than with sex.  See, a lot of 
us are in early college, high school, or even younger than that.  And many 
if not most in our age group haven't made that deep a romantic commitment 
yet.

For us, it's not a matter of "Will I stay with my husband?", it's often more 
like "Will I still try learning to flirt with guys?", "Will I bother going 
to the next sorority-fraternity mixer?", "Will I flirt with my male best 
friend, or my female best friend?", etc..

I am straight, but a virgin by choice.  The relationships I've been 
involved in (which, regrettably, have been sparse of late) have been 
non-sexual.  This may make me naive in such matters, but I hope not.  

Not necessarily - I think observing the outside world instead of just 
relying on your personal experiences counts a lot too.