Virgin territory.Your August 19 article "Like a Virgin" left me wondering why the subjects of the article are working so hard to preserve their aura of "virginity Virginity See also Chastity, Purity. Agnes, St. patron saint of virgins. [Christian Hagiog.: Brewer Dictionary, 16] Atala Indian maiden learns too late she can be released from her vow to remain a virgin. [Fr. Lit. ." Michael Empric supposedly diagnosed his homosexuality homosexuality, a term created by 19th cent. theorists to describe a sexual and emotional interest in members of one's own sex. Today a person is often said to have a homosexual or a heterosexual orientation, a description intended to defuse some of the long-standing by virtue of "an inventory of his enthusiasms"--he likes "shopping and watching The Golden Girls." Profound. So did my father, and he wasn't gay. What most of this catalog catalog, descriptive list, on cards or in a book, of the contents of a library. Assurbanipal's library at Nineveh was cataloged on shelves of slate. The first known subject catalog was compiled by Callimachus at the Alexandrian Library in the 3d cent. B.C. of stereotypes looks like is a way of avoiding coming to terms with being gay. I knew I was gay in high school, not because I was having sex but because I was physically attracted to boys and not to girls. I didn't have to torture the definition of "sex" to discover this; I didn't have to pretend, like Eric, that I was a virgin because I hadn't been penetrated. I guess the problem I have with these guys is that they've bought into Bill Bennett's Book of Virtues and have concluded that virginity is something to be proud of. It isn't. Being yourself is something to be proud of. Being gay is something to be proud of. Being a virgin is just a phase. Hopefully, they'll outgrow outgrow verb To change the relationship with a condition or structure by dint of ↑ age or size; while children outgrow clothing, and certain behaviors, they rarely outgrow diseases–eg, asthma it. Tom Lockwood, San Jose San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif. |
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