In die M&G van Vrydag is daar nogal 'n insiggewende artikel oor pornografie
en die verslawing daaraan - en dit gelykgestel aan verslawing aan drank en
dwelms.
Studies het getoon dat mense ( die meerderheid is mans) behandeling nodig
het om van die verslawing te ontkom , en dit is gewoonlik 'n fantasie wat
selde in die werklikheid manifesteer waar mans altyd die dominante persoon
is waar geen aksie bevraagteken of selfs oor gespot word nie, en die vrouens
gewillig en gereed is ten alle tye.
Dan wonder ons nog hoekom seksmisdade soos verkragting en paedofilie net
erger word en nie gestop kan word nie.
Las Vegas maak 10 000 pornofilms per jaar, en 400 films per jaar vir die
gewone fliekganger - en selfs onder daardie "gewone" flieks is daar al 'n
groot mate van pornografie of suggestiewe pornografie te bespeur. Die
eertydse verskoning van erotiek is besig om heeltemal te verdwyn.
Wat sou julle sê is die verskil tussen pornografie, erotika en nudisme?
Hoekon sal almanakke van naakte middeljarige vrouens wat heel goed bedek is
waar dit saak sou maak so gewild wees, terwyl daar nie so iets bestaan van
mans nie?
Ek sien in Die Burger van Saterdag dat 'n studie bewys al hoe meer Yanks
noem hul kinders na bekende handelsmerke soos daar is 'n hele paar Canons,
Infinitys, Chevrolets, Armanis ens.....maar noe hoekom is ons Suid
Afrikaanse name soos: Justice, Suprise, Presence, Gift, Sunrise, Princess,
Wellness, Goodman, Snoekie en kie dan nie so prominent nie? (",)
Die een wat eerste antwoord
kan 'n week by die tannie gaan kuier.
Die een wat tweede antwoord, kan twee
weke by haar gaan kuier, en die een wat
derde is..
Lied van die vioolspeler, Jan Konterdans, uit die Groot Woestyn
O die dans van ons Suster!
Eers oor die bergtop loer sy skelm,
en haar oge is skaam;
en sy lag saggies.
En van ver af wink sy met die een hand;
haar armbande blink en haar krale skitter;
saggies roep sy.
Sy vertel die winde van die dans
en sy nooi hulle uit, want die werf is wyd en die bruilof groot.
Die grootwild jaag uit die vlakte,
hulle dam op die bulttop,
wyd rek hulle die neusgate
en hulle sluk die wind;
en hulle buk, om haar fyn spore op die sand te sien.
Die kleinvolk diep onder die grond hoor die sleep van haar voete,
en hulle kruip nader en sing saggies:
"Ons Suster! Ons Suster! Jy het gekom! Jy het gekom!"
En haar krale skud,
en haar koperringe blink in die wegraak van die son.
Op haar voorkop is die vuurpluim van die berggier;
sy trap af van die hoogte;
sy sprei die vaal karos met altwee arms uit;
die asem van die wind raak weg.
O, die dans van ons Suster!
The future looks black for redheads
Jonathan Leake, Science Editor
AFTER centuries of jokes and cruel remarks, redheads may have the last
laugh. Natural selection will turn those with ginger hair into an
exotic and desirable rarity in the next 100 years.
Scientists are warning that racial mingling will reduce the number of
people with red hair, consigning the likes of Nicole Kidman, Chris
Evans and Charlie Dimmock to history. Blondes are also likely to
disappear although they will linger for slightly longer because there
are more of them, according to researchers.
The reason, they say, is that people of different races are mixing and
inter-marrying at a rate never seen before because of globalisation
and migration. Natural blondes and redheads will be prized as never
before.
Such striking hair colours are already becoming exceptional when seen
as part of the global population, said Dr Desmond Tobin, who
researches hair cell biology at Bradford University.
As the amount of migration, inter-marriage and mixing increases we
will see them all but disappear, he explained.
He was speaking at a conference organised by the Oxford Hair
Foundation, a research centre which also heard that although about a
third of British women sport blonde hair, most get their colour
straight from a bottle. Only about 3% are naturally blonde, said
Tobin.
The proportion of redheads is even smaller at about 1%-2% except in
Ireland and Scotland where it is estimated at up to 8%.
The proportions of both hair colours are already thought to have
declined, particularly over the past 50 years.
However, Nicky Clarke, a hair stylist whose clients include red-headed
Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York, and blonde Denise van Outen, said
natural blondes and redheads inspired thousands of his customers to
seek similar colours for their own hair. It would be sad to lose that
diversity, he said.
Scientists see such changes as evolution at work but others see the
loss of redheads and blondes as a step backwards.
Quite why humans evolved red or blonde hair is considered one of the
mysteries of human evolution. Although humans probably evolved in
Africa 1m-2m years ago, red and blonde hair appeared only once humans
had settled in Europe possibly as recently as 20,000 years ago.
The genetics of red and blonde hair are also complex. For example, one
of the main genes for hair colour has 40 variants but only about six
cause red hair.
People must inherit two of these six genes one from each parent to
have red hair.The chances of this are always small which is why there
are so few redheads. The best chance occurs in stable rural
communities with a common ancestry where people carrying the genes are
likely to meet and have children.
This is probably how redheads took hold in Scotland and blondes became
common in Scandinavia.
However, such communities are now rare and face influxes of newcomers
reducing the chance that any two parents will each have the genes
needed to produce red or blonde hair in their children. In cities the
chances are far smaller.
Jonathan Rees, the professor of dermatology at Edinburgh University
who discovered the gene for red hair, said: Blondeness appears to
follow similar patterns of inheritance.
In the past, redheads and blondes in concentrated communities have
thrived. Some researchers suggest that many ancient societies,
including the Romans, prized redheads and blondes as mates meaning
that they could choose the fittest partners.
However, while blondeness is still prized in western Europe and
America, the global trend appears to be moving in a different
direction.
Earlier this month Newsweek magazine featured the Canadian-born model
Saira Mohan on its cover, declaring her coffee-coloured skin and dark
hair to be the new global face of beauty. Mohan, the magazine
reported, owed her fusion of western and eastern beauty to an ancestry
that could be traced back to India, Ireland and France.
Tobin said: The genes for red and blonde hair could spread in sparsely
populated areas like ancient Scandinavia or Britain but now they are
simply being swamped.
"Suidwester" skryf in boodskap news:bp1raa$deh$2@newsreader02.ops.uunet.co.za...
> Het jy nie geweet onse antie is 'n 'mens van kleur' van doer anderkant die
> kanaal by Upington nie? Die kleurlingdorpie van Marchand om presies te
> wees.
Is jy regtig 'n kleurling Gloudina? Ek bedoel dit nie snaaks nie nie, maar
ek moet erken ek wonder baiekeer hoe die prominente figure op hierdie
nuusgroep lyk, wat hulle vir 'n lewe doen ens.
Jy is 'n snaakse ene. Ek wonder hoeveel keer jy nie al gevloek en sleg gese
was nie, en tog is jy nog steeds hier.
Die depressie het my darem vandag hard geslaan! My ma en oupa het kom
kuier, en so êrens in die gesprek laat val ek dat ek darem vreeslik graag my
hande op 'n Strat sal wil kry. Dis toe dat my ma my sê "Vra bietjie vir
Oupa waar's sy Strativarius". Ek gooi die vraag daar in my oupa se rigting,
en toe moes ek met 'n swaar hart en 'n traan hoor hoe my Oupa eers die Strat
in 'n "kitaar" verander het en toe "verloor" het. Hy het die viool vir 'n
pel geleen, en toe hy weer die instrument soek is hy weg. Blykbaar het my
Oupagrootjie vir my Oumagrootjie die Strat gekoop vir 3 pond aan die begin
van die 1900's - Strativarius het eers regtig duur begin word hier van die
70's af. Ag my ou hartjie is seer 2 dae terug het Sotheby's 'n Strat
verkoop vir $700 000 en in 1998 is een verkoop vir 950 000 pond. Dink net -
as my oupa nou net sy viool beter opgepas het kon ons nou stinkryk gewees
het!
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