At 13:47 2/20/98 -0500, you wrote:

1. Is this strictly a male thing? (Can't recall it happening to any women, 
but I've far from seen all the anime there is, so...)

	Hazumi from Combustible Campus Guardress nosebleeds after being
kissed, and she's definitely a she. ^_^

I have no backup for this, but I do agree.

2. I seem to recall someone once saying that this is only supposed to 
happen to virgins. Is that the case? All of the instances that spring 
immediately to mind (Tenchi, Keiichi, Ryoga) seem to support this.

	I think it's applicable for anyone who's just very...sheltered
when it comes to sex. And that can be true of a person who has had sex,
too...'specially the very conservative, meat-and-potatoes type who is then
exposed to something decidedly more kinky.

now, I have encountered the real-life equivalent of this..  it's the
full-body blush. when a person with limited/no sexual experience is thrown
into a situation where there is a quantum leap in the level of sex, three
things can happen.

1. acceptance. usually the wet 'n' messy kind

2. denial. nosebleeds..  in Real Life (what you do between Anime and
Fanfiction) this can be ignoring the people that are mating like crazed
rodentia at your feet, or go as far as unconciousness. 

3. rejection. Anger, rage, violence. In Anime, *WHAM* 'Hentai no
BAAAAKAAAA!!!'
followed shortly by the character of your choice flying out a
window/through a wall, shortly followed by their nether undergarments.. 

	Before anyone gets any ideas, this is strictly by reason and
intuition. I have absolutely no real experience, thankyouverymuch. (This
is me, Mr. Sex-Within-Marriage speaking, yes?) ^_^

I, unfortunatelly, don't have the benefit of such a stable relationship.
Pity me. 
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