Making sex pay

TheRealNeoHentaiMaster · Post by **TheRealNeoHentaiMaster** » Thu Jul 17, 2003 7:13 am

EarthCurrent Wins!

Oh, and to comment on an earlier comment...dude...the President doesnt control every little thing. And no, it would not have happened while Clinton was in office, and probably wont happen for a long time. Except in Nevade outside of Vegas...its sort of legal there already.

Kazutaka · Post by **Kazutaka** » Thu Jul 17, 2003 11:59 am

Prostitution is legal in Reno. FYI not legal in Las Vegas.

Stoic · Post by **Stoic** » Thu Jul 17, 2003 2:24 pm

KhayotiK wrote:You've been to Nevada, Stoic?

Not recently.

Kazutaka wrote:Prostitution is legal in Reno. FYI not legal in Las Vegas.

Like I said. Strict guidelines.

Alucard_FoN · Post by **Alucard_FoN** » Thu Jul 17, 2003 2:51 pm

Veldrin wrote:
kthulhu wrote:Besides the questionable "degradation and objectification of women as just sex toys"
I hate when people spew that bullshit from their speaking holes. (I have always wanted to say that).

I had a point to this post, but I forget what it was so I decided not to even try.

Perhaps your point was that even IF one accepts that the profession of prostitution is degrading to these women, still they themselves have chosen to do it. If they want to degrade and objectify themselves that's their business. And like I said that's only if you accept that is degrading, which is not what everyone believes.

AznRAVEr1022 · Post by **AznRAVEr1022** » Thu Jul 17, 2003 4:06 pm

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i love prostitutes.

MistyCaldwell · Post by **MistyCaldwell** » Fri Jul 18, 2003 1:29 am

EarthCurrent wrote:
I'm pretty tolerant about people's religious beliefs myself. Except for that one religion that's full of small-minded loudmouths who are constantly holding their beliefs over everyone else.

What the heck..I am bored.
The only real atheist I know other than myself is my younger sister. I have yet to stand in an airport or knock on doors to get anyone to see things the way I do. I actually believe everyone should think about the big questions of life, death, and religion on their own in the first place...and come to their own destination about why they think we are here and where are we going.

I see spirituality as a good meaningful thing for a lot of people. If it gives them something to believe in, can help them recover from grief and mourn their dead to go on with living, it's not a bad thing at all.

It's when people use organized religion as an excuse for hurting or imposing on others that I feel therapy with a 9 iron would be...a good thing. I can see the good in religion but I also see the bad on a first hand basis. People around me use it as a get out of jail free card and pray for forgiveness afterwards thinking that makes eveything alright. I think it would just be better for everyone else if they'd think about the hurtful things they say and do to others beforehand which would make things more plesant around here in general. Growing up in a baptist church...you see a lot of hypocrites.

I can't seriously imagine invisible people everywhere anymore than Santa Claus, but it doesn't bother me at all if other people want to. It would be nice if they'd offer the same respect to others beliefs instead of insisting they must change to match what THEY feel is right.

The tough questions in life should be things we really think about. If someone really thinks that there is a god waiting for them at the end, that isn't any different than me believing that the oblivion that I can't recall before my birth is what is waiting for me when I die.

The only time I get really vocal with someone is when they claim that religion is the source of base morality. Thus they can't understand why I am not killing people I guess. Morality (not killing, stealing, randomly abusing others of your species) is an evolved trait from being social animals. We have to get along to live in a society so we can't go about indiscriminately rejecting other's rights as we MUST live in some kind of order to survive.

Not that those fundamentals don't get broken anyway obviously...but it's inheritly a bad thing (we all know it) that has little to nothing to do with being religious. Now...I'd be the first to admit that fear of eternal pain and anguish is a great motivator for some people to generally abide by those basic morals....since it's obvious that spending time in jail is not a big reason why people keep from doing those things a lot of the time.

EarthCurrent · Post by **EarthCurrent** » Fri Jul 18, 2003 2:00 am

Misty, that liitle dialogue was meant to poke fun at anyone who meets those criteria...religious, and, as the punchline was meant to demonstrate, non-religious alike.

"I'm pretty tolerant about people's religious beliefs myself. Except for that one religion that's full of small-minded loudmouths who are constantly holding their beliefs over everyone else."

This was a rigged statement. It is meant to provoke a nearly blind and biased reaction in the reader. Just think, what or whom was the first thing to come to mind when you ready that statement?

That thought is representative of a bias, either against the group that came to mind (you feel this profile fits the group), or for it (you see them as constant victims of such statements).

If you managed to remain neutral, and were honestly perplexed about who this statement might be refering to, you're a better, and far more open minded and fair person than many of us.

MistyCaldwell · Post by **MistyCaldwell** » Fri Jul 18, 2003 2:07 am

Not to say that I don't take anything you say seriously EC

but when the emoticons in your posts chat it up, I don't automatically take it seriously thinking that's your schizo side showing....although....^_^

In other words I just saw an opening for a debate and took it.

I am home sick from working a 3rd shift job tonight (I am used to being up all night til 6AM now) so I needed a good brain flex being as bored as I am...

Kamoc · Post by **Kamoc** » Fri Jul 18, 2003 4:40 am

then you must be on the bowflex commercials.