I don't even need to read any other replies on this thread after reading yours. Nothing could be more apropos than that. On behalf of female FReepers, thank you.
“I don’t even need to read any other replies on this thread after reading yours. Nothing could be more apropos than that. On behalf of female FReepers, thank you.”
I think what they did is stupid and shallow. But it doesn’t sound like she was objecting. But compare this with the guy in Germany last year who advertised for a guy who wanted to be killed and eaten and then did it. By comparison, this is only a somewhat weird story of weird people doing pathetic things in pursuit of false goals. We hear them a lot—they have become mundane.
So, with respect, I don’t really understand your defense of women point. Men and women are being violated and violating themselves daily. All that made this story newsworthy is that one of the two violators had a scalpel and a license to use it.
Many years ago, I knew a dentist who got kind of obsessed with a hooker. He wouldn’t let her perform certain acts on him until he fixed all her teeth—you know, bacteria and all that?
Chalk it up to the triumph of humanism in Western Civilization. By humanist standards, these are just transactions between consenting adults. Once that is the societal norm, there are a lot of consenting adults to a lot of weird stuff.