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PunkOnce	Post subject: The last thing I would expect.... Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2005 1:04 pm
Joined: Mon Feb 28, 2005 12:57 pm Posts: 158 Location: Boston, MA	After stumbling across this AAP article via Lexis/Nexis, I couldn't help posting it as a way of expressing my condolences. (Although I guess the next question would be, condolences to whom?) Fed: Half of Australian women lack interest in sex: report Could this be related to the hurricane of think-pieces on "mommy madness" (the pressure to be a perfect parent) that we're currently getting in America?
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paulwiggins	Post subject: Re: The last thing I would expect.... Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2005 3:23 am
Joined: Wed Oct 08, 2003 12:01 am Posts: 3137 Location: Homebush NSW Australia	PunkOnce wrote: Fed: Half of Australian women lack interest in sex: Of course. The football season has started.
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Lee	Post subject: Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 4:11 am
Joined: Sat May 22, 2004 12:01 am Posts: 160 Location: Australia	Okay, someone has confessed to accidentally deleting my post and asked me to repost. It went something like this: There's an old joke: How do you get Aussie girls to hate sex? Marry them. My paper ran a feature by Frederick Forsyth about a marlin-fishing trip; the headline was "The Day of the Tackle". All of my women colleagues who saw the proofs immediately thought of the Forsyth novel, The Day of the Jackal. All of the men told me it was "rude" and we shouldn't run it. Go here http://www.australiatravelsearch.com.au/trc/slang.html and scroll down to Wedding Tackle to find out why. Sigh. Anyway, the point of the post was it's not necessarily that Aussie women hate sex; they just don't obsess about it the way the men do... Now, Paul, can I please get back to my fiddle playing?
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paulwiggins	Post subject: Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 6:47 pm
Joined: Wed Oct 08, 2003 12:01 am Posts: 3137 Location: Homebush NSW Australia	Two points: your colleagues are too prudish and serves ya right for reading your mail on holiday.
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Nessie3	Post subject: Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2005 4:59 am
Joined: Fri Mar 18, 2005 3:03 am Posts: 1224 Location: Japan	Lee wrote: Okay, someone has confessed to accidentally deleting my post and asked me to repost. It went something like this: There's an old joke: How do you get Aussie girls to hate sex? Marry them. My paper ran a feature by Frederick Forsyth about a marlin-fishing trip; the headline was "The Day of the Tackle". All of my women colleagues who saw the proofs immediately thought of the Forsyth novel, The Day of the Jackal. All of the men told me it was "rude" and we shouldn't run it. Go here http://www.australiatravelsearch.com.au/trc/slang.html and scroll down to Wedding Tackle to find out why. Sigh. Anyway, the point of the post was it's not necessarily that Aussie women hate sex; they just don't obsess about it the way the men do... Now, Paul, can I please get back to my fiddle playing? I say the headline's a keeper.
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