[lbo-talk] Re: banning sex toys(the horror, the horror)

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sun Aug 1 07:58:55 PDT 2004


frank scott wrote:


>this debate is interesting for what isn't being said about "free"
>markets, and "free" marketing...we seem to have some closet and not so
>closet pro-market folks here, arguing sexual freedom, and some market
>controllers there, suppressing all the way...really?
>
>so, in this society of wonderful laws for people who can afford them ,
>if i have the money, i can get housing, dildoes, hotel rooms, vibrators,
>young girls or boys, pet food and other wonderful consumables, and
>that makes me a libertine, and if you haven't the money , you can't get
>housing, education , nor any of that other stuff, and that makes you ,
>um, lazy, shiftless, welfare prone, anti-sex and anti-free market ?
>
>that may seem a stretch, but if it's so damned important to be able to
>buy sex toys, in a depraved environment in which dogs and cats eat and
>quite a few people don't, who is on what side of which issue of freedom?
>and where does that freedom occur? in our heads? up our asses? or in
>some other part of the material world that isn't under discussion here?

Where in god's name did you get that interpretation? Do you scour posts, looking for a pretext to be cranky?

Doug



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