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I suspect that's true. As for various smiley faces, just try putting a colon or semi-colon followed by various other characters and see what comes out. I'll do some here and see what we get.
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(Those were colon-right paren, colon left paren, colon-square bracket, colon-o, colon-right bracket, colon-forward slash, colon-question mark, and semicolon-right paren). Let's see what happens...
<edit: okay, I didn't get a tongue with any of those. I'll try some more.>
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[This message has been edited by jackonus (edited November 24, 1999).]
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I just thought I'd go back and look up some of the oldest topics on this board. This one is the oldest (first started) I was able to find.
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Sex is a strange creature, since as has been pointed out, sometimes it seems more like porn... and the only thing I can think of as a reason is the image that we have of the kind of person who reads Science Fiction - when I was in high school, these were the severe geeks, who didn't have any change really of ever getting a date, because they were sooooooooooo geeky.
Aside from that, recently I was having a conversation with someone about Heinlein's writing, and the fact that as he got older, his writing included more and more sex, as opposed to just the lead up, and then fire in the fire place, to wake up the next morning with body parts in the bed. What was brought to my attention is that he didn't realize he could write about sex until his later years - during much of the time he was writing, we had the movies where they would pan to the fireplace or fade to black, etc.
Often what I see writers doing is looking at the people who were writing science fiction back in the 3's, 40's, 50's and thinking that that is the only way it can be written, as opposed to adding in newer fresher perspectives on how things work... like sex and other bedroom issues.
I think reading outside the genre (and reading fantasy doesn't count, because I think there are many problems there too when it comes to bedroom issues), but rather looking at mystery, literary, even romance and historicals - as romance has changed in the views of sex over the last 30 years, and it gets interesting sometimes to see what the opinion of the time seemed to be. I haven't seen many good scenes in thrillers, then then when I'm reading a thriller if I see anyone heading towards the bedroom with someone else, I think they are gonna get it, so even if they do something great and wonderful, the niggling that they are gonna die keeps me from enjoying that. - I think it was too many friday the 13th movies as a teen.
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