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DEAR MISS MANNERS -- What is the correct way to behave 
toward someone you've had a brief, anonymous sexual encounter 
with, as in a sauna, men's room or park? If you pass on the 
street, should you (must you) greet each other? What if you see 
each other at a gym? In a business context? If you are introduced 
at a party, should you (may you) pretend to be total strangers? 
	On the one hand, I generally believe that not to 
acknowledge one's sexual partners is the depth of boorishness. On 
the other, I suspect that quick and nameless sex in semi-public 
places may, like passing gas, simply not exist socially. 
	GENTLE READER -- Miss Manners is shocked that you do not 
seem to understand the meaning of a proper introduction. Or of 
anonymity, for that matter. 
	One does not presume to know anyone who has shown no 
signs of caring to be on social terms. Nothing you have told Miss 
Manners suggests that you can make such a presumption in these 
cases. 




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available in Miss Manners' "Present-Giving" pamphlet. Send $2, 
plus a long self-addressed stamped envelope, to Miss Manners, in 
care of this newspaper, P.O. BOX 4465, Grand Central Station, New 
York, NY 10163-4465. 
	Feeling incorrect? Address your etiquette questions (in 
black or blue-black ink on white writing paper) to Miss Manners, 
in care of this newspaper. The quill shortage prevents Miss 
Manners from answering questions except through this column. 




Copyright 1994, United Feature Syndicate, Inc.

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    mike mills             (. .)                       bass player,  r.e.m.
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