Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Beyond Polyamory: Other Sex and Relationship Issues in

[Bitner/Stevenson (lilbert]

> Bravo, Joani!  Thank you.
> 
> Here's for broadening our capability for acceptance, toleration, viewpoint,
> and all.
>
> Anyone read "The Rape of the APE," by Allen Sherman (APE: American Puritan
> Ethic)?  A humorous (to me, probably scandalous to many) Samuel Clemens
> style shot at American social prudishness.
>
> Merlin Porter-Borden
> Liberty Village Project Manager and next resident to build
> Busy completing last dredges of infrastructure development
> Libertytown, Maryland
>
>
>
I don't think Joani meant that list of questions as a rhetorical exercise. I
certainly don't think every scenario she wrote about was meant to be
acceptable behavior that we should applaud! There are a few situations I
would very much object to, namely the possible pedophilia issue. The erotic
art would be something I'd have to see to decide about. Naked women are one
thing, people doing erotic things to each other would make my son very
uncomfortable-he can't even watch people kissing on t.v. I'd probably ask
him to display those things where my son couldn't see them. I'd also talk to
people one on one, if something bothered me or my kids. Making a community
issue out of people's private choices doesn't work, IMO.

As for that couple living in sin, my son's been asking us to get married for
years. He wants to be in the wedding.


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Liz Stevenson
Southside Park Cohousing
Sacramento, California