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Runcible Spoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-11-07 09:27 PM
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65. strawman.
there is a difference between culturally isolated practices and the issue at hand; in MOST of the world the viewing of sex is considered a non-issue. The only reason people are "sexually abused" by instances like this is because of OUR culturally peculiar notions of puritanism. So ironically the outrage at this is tantamount to the practice of FGM, Sambian puberty rites (I'm guessing your anthro 101 prof showed "Guardians of the Flutes"; I show it to my class :)), the marrying of prepubescent girls, oh and you forgot cannabalism :p because such practices and beliefs are specifically enculturated and not a biological universal, as sex is.
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