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my poems should be online in week or so. why vandalism? is a new ejournal. anyway, i'll send you the link when it's up.

my friend and i had just watched the L word when she started talking about a conversation she and her ex-girlfriend had had about animals and stds. (this actually arose out of my question about lesbian safe sex practices.) evidently animals don't spread stds, don't even have such diseases. she said even in primates there's none. and, as she pointed out, they fuck about anything anywhere, anytime, etc. her point was that we wore clothes, that we didn't let our bodies naturally attend to themselves. also that we were too "civilized" and had probably lost the capacity to prevent such contagion. it was intriguing. i mentioned how i thought much of the problem might have arisen from our fear of pleasure, how the church (you can nearly pick which one) had convinced us that we were shameful if/when we enjoyed pleasure. and that sex was only permitted under the sanctity of marriage. thus we learned to equate pleasure (especially sexual pleasure outside of marriage) with shame and with the conviction that we deserved to catch something, we deserved to suffer, even die. much too simple really, but it was quite a conversation.