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

frank scott frank at marin.cc.ca.us
Sat Jul 31 14:03:38 PDT 2004


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?

fs



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