Posted on 05/16/2006 4:56:45 PM PDT by wagglebee
TORONTO, Ontario, May 16, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – More people are trying out group sex and partner swapping, said a report by the Canadian Press on Sunday, after last year’s Supreme Court decision to legalize swingers clubs in Canada.
Operators of private clubs offering group sexual activity said they have seen a significant increase in participation over the five months since the Supreme Court said such activity was not indecent and did not constitute public harm.
Aurora Ben Zion, who runs Toronto’s largest swingers club, claiming 13,000 members, told the CP the ruling made people more comfortable about experimenting with group sex.
“They think, ‘I’m not a freak, it’s okay to do this, and I’m going to try it out.’ It not only legalized it, I think it legitimized it in the eyes of public opinion.”
The increase in activity does not come as a surprise to those who oppose the ruling. Mary Ellen Douglas is national organizer of Campaign Life Coalition. She sees the legalization of swingers clubs as a symptom of increasing moral decay in the country.
“It shows we are becoming more and more degenerate as a nation. Sex clubs themselves are not new, they’ve been around since Adam and Eve. But [the increase] shows the downward spiral of our country.”
At the time of the Supreme Court decision, Gwen Landolt, vice president of Real Women of Canada, made a similar statement to LifeSiteNews, saying, “The courts are gradually reducing public concern about morality and behaviour that is offensive.”
“There is a real trend to break down moral principles in Canadian society. Those principles have been built based on human experience about what is in the best interest of society.”
Janet Epp Buckingham, director of law and public policy for the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada, told CP the issue is important because Canadians are concerned about swingers clubs
“They’re concerned about the fidelity of relationships, but they’re also concerned about the spread of disease.”
Under the Supreme Court ruling, adult group sexual activity is legal so long as it takes place in a (somewhat) private setting, all participants give consent and money is not directly exchanged for sex.
See previous LifeSiteNews coverage:
Canadian Supreme Court’s “Swingers” Ruling Sets Dangerous Precedent, Says Organization
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2006/may/06050307.html
Canada Legalizes "Sex Clubs" - "14-year-olds will be exploited"
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005/dec/05122104.html
I don't care what adults do behind closed doors but I do think it's disgusting.A real man doesn't get off while watching his wife get gang banged by a bunch of strangers.Only a weak little punk would enjoy watching other men abuse his wife while they treat her like a dirty whore.People who take part in this type of activity deserve the diseases that come with it.
"Mary Ellen Douglas is national organizer of Campaign Life Coalition. She sees the legalization of swingers clubs as a symptom of increasing moral decay in the country."Mary Ellen is right. The West is decadent, and the Islamic World is well aware of it. So are the Chinese, and, if anybody knows the cycles of ascendancy and decadence, it's the Chinese.
Middle America is the last, great bastion of ascendancy, health, and strength in the Western World
The Left that is decadence. In the United States, the Democrat Party is its Political Machine. The "Mainstream Newsmedia" is its Propaganda Machine.
Those who consider abandoning the Republican Party should consider this:
If the Democrat Party should gain power, it would sink America into the same cesspool of decadence that has doomed Europe.
Truly sad, but a reflection of human depravity.
Momentary pleasure trumps lifelong health.
Same could be said about true gluttony also.
This behaviour will be stopped when there is no food on the
table, and the barbarians are at the gate.(it may be
too late by then), but till then...
it's party, puke, and die before your time, time.
It's very strange to watch people engage in behaviour, and
even revel in it, yet you know the behaviour
might very well be a large factor in their early death.
1969
OK, before I even read the posts, I can see it won't be long before the *don't force your morals on me* crowd is here supporting this and condemning you for posting this thread. You really seem to attract them. Thanks for doing it anyway and taking the heat.
I concur with your statement on Middle America. If anyone likes to ask with leftist cunning ie: "have you been there?". I can say Yep, I live just across from it.
I have racked my rather aging brain to find any Sodom and Gommorah, or any decadent society that remained unconquered. If this could be found, it might be a rebuttal to what has been stated.
Oh,oh, The mighty Roman Empire? No-ooo. Egypt? Well,something bad happened to it.
Boys oh boys, I tried to immigrate to America as a young lad in 1954. I did not have the required monies or a sponsor. I might have eventually got myself in trouble, had I had done so.
The criminals that enjoy exalted positions - sheesh. ACLU ? Oh well, enough said.
But if someone is doing something that isn't harming anybody else, whose business is it? (/sarc off)
Right. Spreading disease, increasing the burden on our health care system, and causing an increase in taxes to finance it isn't bothering anybody, now is it?
Hi lj. But whose business is it what anyone does in private? Everybody's when it affects everybody. People have forgotten the civil obligation they have to others as our society has become increasingly self-obsessed. No man is an island.
The Left is also not a geographic location. It is a disease--the disease of decadence--which has infected the Western nations like the black plague; however it threatens to be far more destructive.
It has devastated Europe. Unless a miracle occurs--and it could--Europe is doomed. Decadence is the reason. Because of this decadence, Europe lacks the will to survive.
If it were not for the decadence that has infected America--the American Left--America's foreign enemies would be of little consequence and would present little threat. The Left is their enabler, and America's foreign enemies consider it America's Achilles heel.
The American people have no more important challenge than the defeat of the Left and conquest of the potentially fatal disease of decadence that it represents.
Point taken. I will qualify my statement vis:
I live opposite the Upper Penninsula of Michigan, where there exisists a great deal of Middle America.
Boy oh boy, this English language is great. All one has to do is add a qualifier. LOL
Name one country in the history of history that lost it's morality and didn't also loose it prosperity!
MM, I'm really starting to think it's "FUBAR time". I used to post relevant quotes from wise men (and some women) about the necessity of morality being the foundation of human society. Just haven't had the time lately. But sexual morality is absolutely necessary for human civilization to be (a) civilized and (b) human. If things don't turn around we're in for a rough landing.
How many more people have joined swingers clubs? Are we talking a 10% increase, or a 50% increase? How many Canadians were involved with these clubs before the ruling and after? Are hundreds of thousands of Canadians having group sex now, or are seeing something like a 1 in 10,000 rate going up to 1.6 in 10,000 rate?
Yeesh, that sounds scary. It's been...let's see...about 5 months since Canada legalized these sex clubs. When can I expect Toronto to reach Mad Max levels?
You're not a real deep thinker, apparently.
How old did you say you were?
So what effect, quoth they,(free thinkers) on the worn out stigma of illegitimate births? Oh yeah, call them single moms- it will not alter the face of society.
Sure, not to condemn young women, from my point of view, not to moralise, but..... the state of things with the "new" compassionate and rational society stares us in the face.
Kids without fathers? Needs a sober second thought.
Two words:
Feral humans.
It"s not o.k you are a freak.
50% of all San Franciscans over 16 have a fatal disease that costs $100,000 per year to treat?
That sounds like a liberal "scare stat" that is used by homos to fund AIDS programs - with no basis in reality.
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