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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

  • 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

  • Thanks for Researching This, Rather Than Healthy Family Life

    The complete and inane turpitude of every aspect of American life and attitudes and values continues to astonish me, over time. I would guess that no American living today under the age of 20 or 30 knows or can conceive of the Great American Family as I experienced it, along with so many other Americans, in the 1950s and 1960s here in America. I ...
    Posted to The Dismal Science by MichaelBernard2 on September 29, 2008

  • Sexual Hypocrisy, Law Enforcement & the InterNET

    Thanks for a very interesting and thoughtful article that addressed current events, came up with new approaches, and put it all together neatly in one, entertaining article. My view on those folks who would employ our law enforcement authorities to charge and convict individual InterNET users, is somewhat different. I see these forceful, legal ...
    Posted to Human Nature by MichaelBernard1 on July 8, 2008

  • dubious statistics and overgeneralizations

    Venkatesh makes some misleading statements in “Skinflint.” First of all, he claims to identify three “tiers” of indoor sex work and asserts that the lowest-tier workers earn between $2000 and $5000 per session. ''I found this world by accident in 1999,'' he writes, ''when I started interviewing sex workers in Hell's Kitchen, Spanish Harlem, and ...
    Posted to The Dismal Science by Lisa Montanarelli on March 19, 2008

  • Re: why should spitzer resign? vitter didn't

    I dont understand what the problem is. I understand the legals aspects and the health issues. But he visited a hooker, so what? What is the big deal. Yes there should be better communication in the marriage, but many times people dont want to talk about sex even with partner. What if the wife isnt turned on to her husband sexually any more? ...
    Posted to Today's Blogs by sactoguy on March 13, 2008

  • In their own words (inaugural San edition)

    As you scan through this thread replying to this post or that, all the while thinking you know with whom you are dealing, make sure you don't miss this (10/22/2007 8:05 PM): San: ''Actually, the HPV vaccine DOES prevent cervical cancer. Not all cases, not 100%, but it has been proven to prevent it under certain circumstances.'' Funny, it ...
    Posted to Human Nature by haulinsacs on October 23, 2007