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Thank you for writing this!
... this story is heartbreaking and infuriating. Of course the elderly are full human beings, have an evolved sexuality, and should have full access to their sexual rights. If our legal and familial institutions are not set up to handle these realities, they need to change. Many cultures have either formal or 'look the other way' valves to ...
Posted to Family by commentator245 on June 14, 2008
Hi-Class Adultery
When discussing the ''collateral damage'' done to the family of a serial adulterer, no one seems to want to bring the really ugly out into the open. We can yawn on and on about the drop in social status of a Mrs. Spitzer, and her children. But every time I see one of these political wives standing silently by her man as he makes his obligatory, ...
Posted to XX Factor by NewYorkSparky on March 13, 2008
Birth Control for 12 year olds...
Here’s a question: If a 12-year-old gets a prescription for the pill so she can have sex with her 17-year-old boyfriend, is the school contributing to statutory rape? No one uses birth control to have sex. It's used to do what the name implies: control birth. Kids are going to have sex whether you like it or not, pill or no pill. Given that, ...
Posted to XX Factor by sephira on October 22, 2007