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A2- Wednesday, uly 21, 1982 - North Shore News

Now don’t snicker. Sex is

serious business. Knowing
how much of my own time it

_ takes up, I feel compelled to

raise the topic im print,
knowing that there are lots
of other people whose time,
energy and creativity is also
wasted on Sex.

As a wise person once said
to me, if you're getting it
regularly, it’s not very im-
portant. If you’re not getting
it at all, it becomes

ignificant.

Does this tell us something
about life? Is there some
kind of deeper Zen truth m
all this? Honestly, when it
comes to sex, I don't know
whether to langh or cry.

Like Jimmy (The Goat)
Carter, I admit to ex-
periencing lust in my heart
every once in a while.

I’s a problem, all right,
especially since harems are
illegal, group sex has been
rejected as bad politics by
Ontario's Liberals, and now
that ERA has flopped in the
U.S., there are a lot of
grumpy femmes fatale
around who actually don’t
like men any more.

It certainly isn’t enough
any longer to trust your
instincts when it comes to

a

strictly personal

by Bob Hunter

It’s serious business
It. looks to me as though the sexual revolution
has bogged down in a kind of trench warfare.

sex. Better you should hire a
squad of consultants and
lawyers. Throw in a few
gurus, is my advice.

Sex has become just too
damned com

My wife and I were
discussing divorce, for in-
Stance, the other day —
objectively, you understand.
We were both married once
before we married each
other.

“You know, I don’t think I
could stand the hassle of
getting divorced and married
all over again,” she said.

It wasn’t quite as ringing a
declaration of eternal love as
one might hope for, but in its
own, pragmatic fashion, it
was, after all, a kind of
backed-handed vow to
remain forever mine. Wasn't
it?

It may be that the rate of
divorce has hit the top of an
S-curve and it will level off
from here, due as much to
exhaustion as anything else.

Promiscuity, of course,
has been dealt a terrible
blow by the appearance of .
herpes simplex virus. I look
at my kids and I think: Good
grief, medical advances have
taken their generation back
to the pre-peniciliin Dark

Ages, when to dally could
lead to brain-rot and blind-
ness.

I would assume that the

ultimate effect of the spread

of herpes will be a new
general state of good old
fashion up-tightedness about
sex.

I would also imagine that
sales of The Pill have

and that ancient
prophylactic methods were
coming back into vogue,
now that their health func-
tion is once again required.

To tell the truth, when I
look around, it seems to me
that people are roughly as
inhibited and prissy as they
always were.

I haven't seen anyone take
off their clothes and dance in
the middle of a party for
quite a while. And hardly
anyone has propositioned
me lately with the offer of a
night with their wife.

Obviously ['m_ getting
older and this ts a sweeping
generalization, but my bet is
that the era of frolicksome
hot-tub group gropes has
probably waned for the
moment.

There are a lot more
normal people around than
you think. Or, put it this
way: Most of us are far
straighter than we'd like to
admit.

For the most part, wives
still cling jealously to
husbands who cling jealously
to wives, and it is the hassle
of messing-about that is
finally the greatest
deterrent.

This sounds quite dismal,
but it is actually a victory for
stability (which has probably
always been reached anyway
by people backing into it, as
into a corner).

Suddenly, there are all
these reasons for being good
- incurable diseases, dif-
ficult property settlements,
Byzantine family laws, and
maybe even a_ certain
amount of world-weariness.

Y’know?

“A little
bit more’
parking

NEW PARKING stalls at the
Safeway lot at 13th and
Lonsdale were approved by
North Vancouver City
council last week.

The council was involved
because a City lane runs
right through the middle of
the lot.

The angled stalls will be
changed to 90 degree ones,
eliminating a lot of wasted
space according to the store.

As a result, parking will
increase to 139 stalls from
123 and two handicapped
spaces will be provided near
the store.

Interest or —
fwo per cent

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said Hembling, “would be
teed and subsidized in
total by CMHC. This makes
the project possible
regardless of fluctuations in
market interest rates.”
If District and
endorses the Indian River
co-op scheme five one-

Paid for work
done by crew

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local union members, at a
time when other members

- were out of work and layoff

notices
shortly.

were expected

“If this precedent is
allowed,” he said, “it means
any crew can work on ships
here.”

Union members returned
to work at noon after a
settlement was reached
between representatives for
the union and management.

Local 506 Business
Manager Ron Ferguson told
the News: “The company
agreed to pay for the time
that the guys would have
worked on the weekend.”

bedroom, 10 two-bedroom
and. 85 ‘three-bedroom

residential units would come

on-stream into the housing

market. L
However, council

deferred the proposal to “a
later date” when District’s
housing. committee com-
pletes a report to council in
late August.

He described the incident
which led to the work
stoppage as “a complete
misunderstanding from both
sides as to what was to be
done.”

Work on the ship has been
unduly prolonged because of
a mishap which occurred
back in January, causing the
bow section of the ship to
sink.

The accident occurred
while the ship was being
“stretched” and welders had
just cut the ship in two to
add a 60 ft. centre section,
when the- bow keeled over
on its side and slipped off the
drydock. The 80 ft. section
had to be recovered from the
seabed in a salvage
operation.

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