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  • Polanski

    Just because an adult is sexually stimulated by the sight or actions of a child does not excuse his actions. Your author attempts to excuse Polanski by saying the thirteen-year-old victim he raped behaved provocatively. So where does this slippery slope end? With the three-year-old tot who has learned that ''flirting'' melts an adult and yields ...
    Posted to Human Nature by Mary Golden on October 14, 2009

  • prostitutes and taxes

    I would be willing to be that the majority of prostitutes do not file any taxes whatsoever. They keep telling themselves - this is only temporary. I'll be getting out of this soon.
    Posted to Explainer by david wayne osedach on September 21, 2009

  • A long time dying...

    When I was a kid in the 60s and early 70s, I counted on music journos and reviewers to point me toward interesting music that would likely not -- even in those far more eclectic and free-wheeling radio days -- make it onto my local AM or FM dial... music I might have to drive across Southern Cali to find. When I first saw Rolling Stone in 1969, ...
    Posted to Culturebox by ks2problema on August 11, 2009

  • A widower's predicament.

    I am a 65 year old male who still has a modestly active libido and have recently found myself alone in the world after almost 40 years of faithful marriage. I lost my wife after a 14 year struggle with Parkinson's Disease. For personal and financial reasons I do not wish to blindly plunge into a committed relationship with the first lady who ...
    Posted to Dear Prudence by oleshep on July 31, 2009

  • Re: What I would have done to the masseuse/escort....

    I can't believe that people are such wusses these days that they can be held up for extortion in their own hotel room by a felonious prostitute. Don't they understand that the moment the lady demanded payment for services not rendered that she was guilty of extortion? The moment she demanded money the first time they should have started dialing ...
    Posted to The Chat Room by brerlou on July 31, 2009

  • Hari Sufficiently Condems 'The East, The West, and Sex'

    This was a blistering review by Johann Hari of Richard Bernstein's book on how Euro-American sexual mores changed those of the Middle and Far East through the centuries — and vice-versa. '...Only a hundred or so pages in, the scent of testosterone and spent semen soaked into its pages becomes bewildering,' Hari writes in his second ...
    Posted to Books by Ankhorite on June 30, 2009

  • Re: Aren't Most Pop Artists Already Sell-outs?

    Here is an example of exactly what Elizabeth was commenting on in the post below this one. When mainstream writers like Seth Stevenson use sex workers as examples of selling out, or not being authentic, then average citizens pick up on those uses, like this poster who apparently equates loving a great band for the 'wrong reasons' with prostitution ...
    Posted to Ad Report Card by seppaarroyo on June 22, 2009

  • Writing the Nation On Our Backs

    Seth, To “sell out” communicates complex meanings about how a person (or a social network) provides information or services that compromise others. Do whores provide information or services? Yes. But in this mediation, are others compromised? No. And if the activity in question is *not* consensual ...
    Posted to Ad Report Card by enanas72 on June 22, 2009

  • Why it's creepy, & modeling isn't

    It's not just the legality -- I think she's doing it through the Bunny Ranch in Nevada, so it is in fact legal. It's also that auctioning off one's virginity is what happens to young girls in third-world countries who are kidnapped & forced into sex slavery. In fact, it happens on a daily basis & it is one of the most horrifying & ...
    Posted to XX Factor by whakim on January 14, 2009

  • Empowerment is not the word

    I am a Libertarian and I love the free market. But this idea I feel is repugnant. There are just some things that don't need to be sold. The idea of a young girl's virginity is one of them. Would the support for her be the same if she were say 15 years old? (That is under the legal age of consent in many countries?) The fact that the media ...
    Posted to XX Factor by IanMas515 on January 13, 2009
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