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Robert H Ruskin wrote:
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> The biggest crime about the "Third Date Rule" is that it boils everything
> down to sex. If sex is not in the works, then then relationship should be
> abandoned. Somehow if you go out on a "date" [I no longer know what that
> is] three times, you should know whether you want to go to bed with
> him/her. How stupid can you get!!!! Ah, but if you are a "friend" somehow
> you don't count as a possible romantic interest, you NEVER go out on a
> "date" with a friend. If there is one thing that angers me about today's
> generation, it is this application of the "Third Date Rule" because it is
> so dehumanizing. 
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> We need to see each other less as sexual objects to be sought and
> possessed, and more as people with a sexual identity who we wish to
> understand and share ourselves with. Love is an unfolding of a flower
> that has no set schedule, and comes in many forms each needing
> exploration. Because you can jump into bed with a person does not by
> itself signify that a "relationship" has been born; nor does lack of sex
> in a relationship signify that a loving relationship does not exist.
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   BINGO!  ...IMO, you hit the nail right on the head.

   Thank you very much Robert. It was about time some one got down
   to the real problem that the thread was originally attempting to 
   deal with.

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-terry rasmussen (email: trr@ontos.com)
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