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In reply to the discussion: Is porn immoral? That doesn’t matter: It’s a public health crisis. [View all]DisgustipatedinCA
(12,530 posts)95. sysadmin? that's a different thing, you know. We normally sit in the same part of the building
But we're not the same.
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We should start requiring those pictures to be posted online. That will get
MillennialDem
Apr 2016
#29
We need to face the FACTS on guns. It's too easy to just brush aside dead people as
MillennialDem
Apr 2016
#66
Well, again, "control" is probably the wrong way to look at it there, just like with porn or drugs
Recursion
Apr 2016
#8
Glossing over the fact that the law in your OP was passed by the most religiously conservative
Bluenorthwest
Apr 2016
#25
It would be a weird thing to say, if he had actually said it. But again you have wildly
Warren DeMontague
Apr 2016
#61
But you just proved its not religion, it's the socialization that provides the benefit.
cleanhippie
Apr 2016
#119
Gail Dines is hardly what you would call an objective, disinterested party in this argument.
Warren DeMontague
Apr 2016
#10
I think that, for one, anyone with windows 10 and a microsoft account should be able
Warren DeMontague
Apr 2016
#68
One need not look any further than the author to know this is going to be a complete load of shit
Major Nikon
Apr 2016
#43
The greatest public health crisis of our times gets treated like a joke, the thousands it kills
Bluenorthwest
Apr 2016
#28
I believe he is talking about the reaction to AIDS in the Reagan era and beyond
Warren DeMontague
Apr 2016
#117
Yes it is, but people will go straight to "sex, sex, sex" and never touch the actual roots
ck4829
Apr 2016
#35
It would certainly save a lot of folks from needing glasses and palm hair removal
Major Nikon
Apr 2016
#73
But that's the point. It's not the government's job to regulate every little thing
davidn3600
Apr 2016
#44
You obviously haven't been following Gail Dines's career very closely
Warren DeMontague
Apr 2016
#58
Shrink: "Do you think sex is dirty?" Woody Allen: "It is if you're doing it right."
immoderate
Apr 2016
#53
Another public health crisis not being taken seriously by anyone except the folks whose careers
Warren DeMontague
Apr 2016
#60
She's rehashing some of the worst, most old debunked studies out there.
Warren DeMontague
Apr 2016
#82
Or, it's not like there wasn't misogyny in the "good old", censorship-happy pre-internet porn days.
Warren DeMontague
Apr 2016
#86
sysadmin? that's a different thing, you know. We normally sit in the same part of the building
DisgustipatedinCA
Apr 2016
#95
I have had both job titles, sysadmin more recently (well, that morphed to "devops")
Recursion
Apr 2016
#96
I found out that I very much like working where technology is the product.
DisgustipatedinCA
Apr 2016
#100
It's very possible we need more *porn*, but we need parents and kids to talk about with each other
Recursion
Apr 2016
#101
you realize, of course, that that is 180 degrees away from anything Gail Dines and her buddies are
Warren DeMontague
Apr 2016
#103
Which includes rubbish promoted by Gail Dines? "frank" doesn't mean what you think it means.
Major Nikon
Apr 2016
#109
(Recursion is a decent guy, and we came to an understanding that caused us both to self-delete)
DisgustipatedinCA
Apr 2016
#102
Funny story about porn and Utah. I actually was in SLC to see the Dead play in '95, of all places
Warren DeMontague
Apr 2016
#116