Assume Nothing

Pornography is quite different than prostitution. In the pornography industry, both participants are (hopefully) being paid, but they are not paying each other for the sexual act. Comparing gay marriage to prostitution isn't a very good comparison. Prohibiting gay marriage is wrong because our laws say that heterosexual couples can marry, but homosexual couples cannot. It's a matter of discrimination based on sexuality. We are not saying that "x" group of prostitutes can legally sell their bodies to another person, but "y" group cannot. saying "gays can't marry while straight people can" equates to "prostitutes cant have sex for money while pornstars can" in my book. it's still a discrimination based on sexuality, the only difference is orientation(preference) verse sexual feedom. Remember: the only difference between a hooker and a pornstar is a camera. Then you have missed my point entirely. Let me spell it out for you again so you may understand: Prostitution=one person soliciting sex, another paying for sex. Pornography=two people being paid to have sex by another party who then produces the act for entertainment value. They are entirely different things. Clever sayings do not equate the two. I think there is a way to separate pornography and prostitution though - the selection of whom to engage in intercourse with. It's probably harder for prostitutes to discriminate against the fat, the obese, and the ugly... let alone the STD-saturated john whom may be cheating on their partner, if it's based purely on money (which street prostitution, and window-prostitution is pretty much). If we're talking about escorts, on the other hand... EDIT - Oh, I appear to have replied to the wrong person. I meant that to be in response to the idea that porn = prostitution with a camera.

If I base this on what I've observed of strippers of various kinds, I could safely say that a lot of sex-workers actually enjoy what they do. I'd like to think that this principle applies to prostitution as well. Could it be that prostitution's not to blame for those who hate the job - but rather, whom it attracts to use such services?

EDIT - essentially said that though two consenting adults can have their own freedoms to do whatever to themselves, it doesn't mean that it's within their best interests. But then again, we've had homosexual incestual relationship discussions before. Yeah, my analogy sucked.

This is the reductionist argument that means very little. I'll illustrate - two consenting adults, whom are siblings of the same sex, fall in love and enter a relationship...

EDIT - upon reflection, not a great discussion.

I'm just a tad late on the breast-size discussion, but I seem to have changed my mind on it. I'm surprised myself that I'm into a girl with practically no boobs at all, but I still find her beautiful (for sake of reference, A cups on a tiny 28'? frame). I'm wondering why it matters to you guys though.

I hope you guys realize that there's a reason for why some of us get annoyed at the use of poor grammar. If people write with poor grammar, it's annoying to read, which is like trying to listen to someone who's annoying to listen to. Oh, and I've edited in some statistics on this thread. I'm surprised I'm still the top poster with my year-long hiatus. Who posted in: Things that annoy the HELL out of you. Member name Posts Assume Nothing 488 Dizzle229 457 Alg 404 Rob 387 Giordano 381 Riku3220 374 Duff 373 H2PM 336 Nomrombom 317 Guile Cherry 316 champion 278 K4ylan 267 Vezon Dash 230 Star. 220 Saru_Inc 206 obfuscator 186 AppallingCoatHanger 176 Toki_Hakurei 170 The_Gabe 163 Randox 158 Dax 154 Maleficus1055 150 Ginger_Warrior 149 ItsASpork 146 ElkNight 142 Distracted 139 Maze 132 Surprise 129 TTanT 120 Crocefisso 116 Tylerelyt 113 Dupin 107 Sbrideau 105 Killerred005 100 sarg1010 100

EDIT - removing my own post.

I've been reading a lot of food-related books recently. - Hungry City - How Food Shapes Our Lives, Carolyn Steel - Fast Food Nation - What the All-American Meal is Doing to the World, Eric Schlosser - Stuffed & Starved - From Farm to Fork, the Hidden Battle for the World Food System, Raj Patel - Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper - A sweet-sour memoir of eating in China, Fuschia Dunlop

I've been drifting through the past few months with all the events in my life starting to play out. After finally succeeding in enrolling on my preferred University, I'm starting to adjust to University life - including getting myself drunk (this'll be a wonderful story if it didn't involve anything confidential). It's pretty frustrating to me that I'm not actually learning much from a lot of lectures in the first year, with a lot of material touching on the syllabus from sixth form. Hmmph, there's a lot more to say but I would prefer to keep this post short, so I'll just have to respond to questions later. Goodnight, Tip.it

I could be interpreting this wrong, but I don't see how you could conclude that man presupposing the idea of 'god' (i.e. man creating 'god') independently as 'weird'.

I don't follow - why would it be weird to consider that man created 'god'?

... to expand on the automatic embedding of YouTube urls - they must follow the http://youtube.com/watch?v=[videocode goes here] to embed correctly. I've seen too many people try to embed a url that contains other features in it, or use the youtu.be short-code on here.

... I wonder what his motive was. It might just be time to rethink gun-control policies.

Not entirely, as it was so disorganized on there. Do consider contributing to the thread instead.

I couldn't find any other related threads that it could fall under, so I figure it wouldn't be a terrible idea to make a new one for it. There are tons of things that we discover about random things, like @Randox's post here: What amazing thing have you discovered recently? Do note that it could be as trivial as you'd like. I just discovered that glue is a great way to get rid of splinters - just apply it on top, let dry, and peel it off.

... on the subreddit subject; it sounds like a very pointless thing to do. It wouldn't warrant the traffic and moderation would be a logistical nightmare.

It sounds like you have some serious talking to do with your parents, but that might depend on the nature of your relationship with them. Do you think they'd listen if you had a respectful discussion about how you're being treated, e.g. the seemingly overprotectiveness of your mom?

Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so. - Robert G. Ingersoll

If you want advice on that, you may need to tell us your dietary habits first. In other words, what do you enjoy eating?

It's a random question that recently came to me: what inconsequential, yet mind-blowing discoveries have you recently had? For the sake of context, I had a friend who didn't know that breakfast meant 'to break one's fast'. Post away!

Today, I realized that a lot of the things I've listened to in my childhood are not as innocent as they seemed, e.g. Flo Rida's 'Right Round'. It's almost mind-blowing. EDIT - Oh, it was 'like a record', my bad!

I'd argue that you should presuppose a non-existence, since that's the default state of skepticism. If it wasn't an archaic creation of humanity, it's awfully inconsistent with history. I made a hasty analogy that's poorly thought out, but it does highlight a point nonetheless. EDIT - I think I might be confusing terms here, might not be presupposition that I'm referring to.

I'm curious as to whether it would be more applicable to say, Off-Topic than RuneScape General Discussion. It's an uncommon problem, but sometimes compound words like wrist-watch without the hyphen gets unnecessarily censored. (wris[bleep]ch) I'd personally consider the 'f-word' a non-offensive term. It's not uncommon to say that something's '[bleep]ed-up', which is a perfectly acceptable context (then again, you could argue it's not necessary)

I haven't really had the chance to reply to this earlier. Here's the simple response: You wouldn't accuse non-golf players as being the moral equivalent to that of a rapist, would you?