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'Most Sexual Creatures on Earth'

Thank you for the cogent analysis in your Boy Scout article ["Gay Scouts: In Name Only?" September 1999]. The circular logic of the court decision you describe is the way all taboos must function. Its "reasoning" is based erroneous assumptions. The taboo forbids discovery.

Last summer, a teenager I know asked me about the Columbine shootings. I told him those boys should have been getting more sex. If they were getting some good sex, they wouldn't be thinking about all that violent stuff. He gave me a high-five. The opinion makers all talk about guns and music and videos and movies and the media. Why? Because it's safe. They're afraid to talk about the real issue-- our sexual lunacy. It's not an issue of sex and violence. It's sex or violence. Our lumping them together like that says it all. The shrinks call it displacement. You have all this energy, and it's gotta go somewhere. Teenage boys are the most sexual creatures on earth. Nature made them that way, but our laws try to deny it. It's nuts, and who do you think will win? Trying to force boys not to have sex is like telling the sun not to shine; if they had more of it, we'd all be a lot happier.

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South Bay, Florida

P'Town Sex Police

We have always enjoyed our visits to Provincetown; however, we recently encountered an unpleasant situation.

Taking a stroll on the beach, we came upon a group of guys behind a popular nightspot. Two Provincetown police officers came along, and one shouted, "we made arrests here last year and we will do it again this year. Tell your friends that an arrest for committing unnatural acts won't look too good on your job application."

Without defending the actions of those men, we are gay, visiting a town that actively seeks our patronage. We expect public officials to understand that as gay men and women we commit "unnatural acts" daily in our relationships. It is sickening that this officer would have us feel ashamed of that. We wonder, too, if this officer exercises his obvious bias in other aspects of his dealings with gay people.

S and C.

Any town's vice cops are a twisted (and/or corrupt) lot. Like the ayatollahs' minions who trawl the bazaars looking to punish immodestly dressed women, or the knights of the Jim Crow American South who used lynching as a prophylaxis against potential miscegenation, today's sex cops don't prevent real crime-- they enforce religious-based sex rules. Clucking clerics can be tolerated, but tax-payer-funded crackdowns on "unnatural acts" are wasteful and unjust.

French Affect?

Blanche Poubelle's piece "Ladida" [July 1999] was delightful. I always figured it [the expression "ladida"] must come from the American and British view of Frenchiness being snotty, snobbish, pretentious, and affected. "La" and "de" are words that stay with students who've had a smattering of French but remember little of it. Hence, those with a minimal knowledge of French and an active dislike of French fanciness coined "ladida" as a put-down.

Blanche's detective work is fascinating; let's hope she keeps it up for years!

Dave Futch
Lexington, Virginia