Conference thebay::joyoflex

    Well, I've heard that Polly will "do it" with anybody, but this
    is ridiculous... :-)
    
    --- jerry

    
        RE: .1 
                       8^)
    
        RE: .0
                       This is a serious question:  could it mean that
                       the person in question also does it with animals?
                       If not, then I don't know what else could be
                       considered.
    
                                                           Shawn L.
    

    Polly put the condom on
    Polly put the condom on
    Polly put the condom on
    We'll all have tea.
    
    Phillip

    Re: .0   ..."polysexuals"
    
    My dictionary defines the prefix _poly-_ as:
    
         1. More than one; many.  2. More than ususal.
    
    It sounds like an orgy to me!!
    
    
    >> Are we beginning to develop something new?  :-P
    
    Are you afraid that you may be missing out on something?  {:^(
    
    (I think orgies have a history commensurate with the availability
    of wine and lechers.)   }8^)

   

    Once read this description:
    
    	"I'm trisexual..."
                              
    
    	"I'll try anything sexual."
    
    					(-: andrew :-)
    
        

    Re .5 (Andrew):
    
>                      -< Poly implies more than two... >-
 
    Indeed.  Now, here's a problem -- even if we include unusual practices,
    such as "liaisons" with critters, in any animal above the sponges,
    there are two clearly defined genders.  I suppose if we locate a
    true hermaphrodite, we might make a _slight_ case for three; but
    again, that "third" would really be a synthesis odf the other two.
    
    Steve Kallis, Jr.   

Re: .6
> ... in any animal above the sponges, there are two clearly defined genders.

Hmmmm, not so Steve.  The Hyena changes its sex every six months: half the
year it is male, half the year it is female.  Having said that, I accept your
point that this hermaphrodicity is merely the presence of two sexual natures
rather than of a distinct third nature.

Henry Gillard - TSC Sydney

Perhaps Polysexual is the "real" word for the more familiar term "Polyfilla"



Or then again, perhaps not	:-(

	Steve

    Re .7
    So *that's* why they laugh so much !
    
    
    Polysexual . We have men , women , animals and plastic substitues.
                          |      |         |              |
    For a man -           |      |         |              |
                   homosexual  heterosexual|              |
                          |      |         |              |
                          |      |         |              |
                          ---||---         |              |
                             ||            |              |
                             \/            |              |
                          bisexual      pervert         lonely
                              |            |              |
                              |            |              |
                              -----------------------------
                                        \  |  /
                                         \ | /
                                          \|/
                                           |
                                       polysexual
                                       
    
    
                          
    John J
    

    re .7:
    
    No. Hyenas do not change sex.  It is true that female hyenas
    have large clitorises and pseudo-scrotal swellings, thus making
    them look like the males, but the idea that hyenas are either
    all-male or switch sexes is not true.
    
    Various articles have been written about hyenas--there was one
    in Scientific American not too long ago, I believe.  The current
    hypothesis explaining the physical similarity of the sexes'
    equipment is that it functions as a social signaling device.
    
    					-John Bishop

    re .7 (John):
    
    >hypothesis explaining the physical similarity of the sexes'
    >equipment is that it functions as a social signaling device.
     
    Protect me from such a society! :-D
    
    Steve Kallis, Jr.

    Re .10
    
    As far as I know, no mammals are naturally hermaprodite. For
    hermaprhodites see snail and worms.

    Here's a mutation; tho' I suspect the mutation occurred from the start
    as soon as the verb was coined on the basis of the root noun (no
    research - the Library in this benighted building doesn't have a decent
    dictionary): 
    
    `Pontifex' (the Pope) means `bridge-builder'.  The Pope is supposed
    to build a bridge between Heaven and Earth. At the same time, the
    Pope's _ex_cathedra_ pronouncements are binding.
    
    So when someone pontificates, he's laying down the law - not
    by any means building bridges.
    
    bob

    Had a look in my old Latin dictionaries last night ... 
    
    'Pontifex' is classical for the name of a sort of priest in 
    Roman times; there's nothing to indicate a correlation with 
    'pons,-tis' (bridge); there's nothing against it either. 
    
    Sometimes books help, sometimes they don't ...
    
    	roger    

    Yep.  Some etymologies go back a lot further than some dictionaries.
    
    b

    Just for the record, the Encyclop�dia Britannica uses "polymorphous
    perversion" to refer to the malady of the folks
    labeled in previous replies as "polysexual".
    
    W