>>*g*.
>>Lets just say you and I have differing views.
>>If we live long enough we'll find out who's right.
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>I incline slightly to the left, so...

Yeah, just slightly... :)

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>>They're slaves? I think you've been watching too many Barretta reruns.
>>Ok no joking here. If they were force into it, I'd say they innocent.
>>But there are so many that do it becuase they're "working" their way through school.
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>That's here, and that's the 1% I mentioned. The rest of them... anywhere between sheer abduction to the regular promise of a nice job in a foreign country, where they are first stripped of their passports, and then of the rest. And they supposedly have to work to pay for the cost of them being smuggled from their countries. The direction is usually from poorer countries towards any slightly richer countries - even 13 years ago, we had girls from Ukraine and Russia working nights in Serbia. Or, later, from Albania via Italy to who knows where.

Ok. So the United States gov't refuse to help people who peddle in sex... is that so bad that they refuse money that can help at least some of their people?


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>I somehow can't imagine Brazilian girls doing that just to have some cash for partying after school. Maybe a few bored girls from richer families - but then, they aren't typical anywhere.

Somehow, I can.

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>>>Curiously, the ultimatum doesn't exclude rapists. IMO, they are the only ones who should be pushed to the end of the line each time someone else catches it. Though, they also shouldn't be denied treatment.
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>>I agree. Lets hang'em :)
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>...by the...?

The most painful part of a male body.....:)

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>>>>I'm praying for a vaccine.
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>>>Whatever works, even prayer.
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>>It's just a figure of speech, like "holy cow". I'm not even reglious. I'm just not "religious-phobic". :)
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>I wasn't (phobic). And still am not, mostly. It's the aggressive rightwing agenda (be it Dominionist Christianity or Orthodox Christianity or Islam - the difference is the same) trying to run our lives the way they want. That's scary.

Ok, then you sound paranoid. There is no way this counry will ever be dominated by one particular group/sect.


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>I'm just trying to live a clean life. My only vice (defined as "I know I'm doing something I shouldn't) is smoking - I'm 99% alcohol-free, mostly sugar-free, not that fat-free but then I have only 6lb more than I had 30 years ago, violence-free and religion-free.
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>>Abstinence until... whenever, is bad because... what? Isn't that the safest/surest way to avoid STD.
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>Abstinence is bad for your mental health. You can't be happy that way. I'm not sure good sex is enough to make one happy, but it surely is a necessary ingredient. We're just built that way. Lacking good sex life makes one look for other ways to use the pent up energy - which all the leaders know and use. They'll feed on that energy and use it to promote their own agenda, subvert it into obedience, hatred, whatever. Read the "Mass psychology of fascism" by Wilchelm Reich - who wasn't always right on his recipes, but his analysis is nearly spotless.

Sound like a desparate excuse to have sex... but, each to his own.
I'll try that excuse on my next date... :)