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<blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 8678609" data-attributes="member: 177">Pointing out that it is perfectly legal in some places, but ragingly illegal everywhere else, and that the places in which it is legal are highly stigmatized, is a nice bit of rhetorical dodging, but it doesn't fly.&nbsp; The severely limited legality is a cue that society, in general, isn't comfortable with it.And, by the way, it isn't just that minors &quot;might overhear it&quot;.&nbsp; They may well be active participants in the conversation.So, now, in essence you've just walked up to a random 13-year-old on the street, and started chatting them up about prostitutes, and how much getting a good time on Saturday night is going to cost you.&nbsp; Mom and Dad are not going to be happy with you when they find out.&nbsp; You are, at that point, in a space where a jury would probably not convict them of assault if you got a face full of pepper spray, or your nose broken for your trouble.Thus, no, there will be no discussion of the cost of sexytime on this website.&nbsp; Moralizing about the social injustice of how violence is glorified and sex is vilified in our culture does not change the fact that the site exists within that context, and we have to live with it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Umbran, post: 8678609, member: 177"] Pointing out that it is perfectly legal in some places, but ragingly illegal everywhere else, and that the places in which it is legal are highly stigmatized, is a nice bit of rhetorical dodging, but it doesn't fly. The [I]severely limited[/I] legality is a cue that society, in general, isn't comfortable with it. And, by the way, it isn't just that minors "might overhear it". They may well be active participants in the conversation. So, now, in essence you've just walked up to a random 13-year-old on the street, and started chatting them up about prostitutes, and how much getting a good time on Saturday night is going to cost you. Mom and Dad are not going to be happy with you when they find out. You are, at that point, in a space where a jury would probably not convict them of assault if you got a face full of pepper spray, or your nose broken for your trouble. Thus, no, there will be no discussion of the cost of sexytime on this website. Moralizing about the social injustice of how violence is glorified and sex is vilified in our culture does not change the fact that the site exists within that context, and we have to live with it. [/QUOTE]

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