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 More options May 16, 5:09 am
Newsgroups: rec.arts.mystery
From: "Joan in GB-W" <jjkr...@aol.com>
Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 14:09:46 -0500
Local: Fri, May 16 2008 5:09 am
Subject: Re: PING: JohnP

>>>>Hi JohnP

>>>>I would imagine this has been called to your attention before now . . .
>>>>but
>>>>in case not . . . and for your other RAM friends who did not see it.

>>>>While reading The Playboy Advisor this morning (PLAYBOY April 2008) I
>>>>came
>>>>across a question from a reader who is interested in becoming a sperm
>>>>donor.
>>>>This person wants to meet the potential people he helps and asks Playboy
>>>>how
>>>>to do this.

>>>>In their reply Playboy  lists several good reasons why knowing the
>>>>person
>>>>who receives your sperm is not a good idea, including the one where the
>>>>recipient can sue and usually win support from the donor if he is known.
>>>>They add this exception, and they add it in parenthesis, and so will I.
>>>>(A
>>>>notable exception occurred in January in Pennsylvania, where the state
>>>>supreme court ruled that a man who donated sperm to a loved did not owe
>>>>support.  The justices said to rule otherwise would undermine women's
>>>>right
>>>>to use known donors.)

>>>>Sounds familiar?

>>>>Joan

>>> Wow. I always wanted to be in Playboy. I think.

>>> Now I have an excuse to buy a copy, and my wife can't get mad when I
>>> bring it home. "Look, Jan, I didn't buy it for the pictures. My case
>>> is in it." ;)

>>> Thanks for letting me know.

>>> I wonder if April's is still on the stands? It's now May. Usually they
>>> have July's out by now.

>>> John P

>>Let me know if you can't find a copy.  I can always send you ours.

>>Joan

> I have a friend who gets it, I'll ask him. And Beeg just emailed a
> copy of the page in question. She said she got it off the internet.
> I wonder... ;)

> John P

There is also an excellent article in that Playboy (Zero-Narrative Nation by
Susan Jacoby) that speaks to the decline in both children and adults reading
books.  We are becoming a nation of sound bites, starting with plopping our
preschoolers, actually toddlers, in front of the TV at an extremely early
age.  Many adults get their news from their computers . . . sound bites
actually.    Here is a sentence from the article:  "According to a 2007
report by the national Endowment for the Arts, 40 percent of adults from the
ages of 25 to 44 and nearly half of Americans from the ages of 18 to 24
never--I repeat, never--read books for pleasure."  Wow!  RAMmers are way
above that average, but then most RAMmers are older than 44 . . . . ??

Joan


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