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| KAREN TOLKKINEN
Posted on 07/25/2003 10:39:04 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: sonserae
I just read the book "Middlesex". It's about an hermaphrodite. Apparently, his parents were cousins and his grandparents brother and sister. They came from Greece. They outlawed incestual marriage because of such mutations occurring.Maybe being a hermaphrodite is a tough life to live, but look at it this way: It doubles your chances of getting a date on a Saturday night!
Mark
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posted on
07/25/2003 11:26:37 AM PDT
by
MarkL
(OK, I'm going to crawl back under my rock now!)
To: johnb838
I'm waiting for someone to marry a 12 year old and use it for a test case. After all, who are we to judge? May happen sooner than you think. The minimum marriage age is 12 in places like Tanzania, Philippines and Sri Lanka. All it will take is for someone who is legally married in his home country to a 12-yo to come over to the US and be arrested for having sex with his 12-yo wife
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posted on
07/25/2003 11:26:55 AM PDT
by
SauronOfMordor
(Java/C++/Unix/Web Developer === will work for food)
To: nickcarraway
I recall reading an Ann Landers or Dear Abby column (one of those harpies, can't recall exactly which one) in which a woman wrote in about a marriage. It seems that she was at a wedding for a 30-40 old man, to his 5 year old daughter. The little girl had no concept of marriage, except that two people who love each other, get married. So, she loved her Father, and so she wanted to marry him. Her parents, instead of informing her about what marriage really was, had a marriage ceremony in which they invited their friends and such, and all the invited guests oohed and ahhed. The woman was really disgusted, told the parents so, and the parents of the little girl saw no harm in what they were doing. (Abby/Ann agreed with this woman. That this was disgusting, and it violated the concept of marriage.
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posted on
07/25/2003 11:32:39 AM PDT
by
lowbridge
(Rob: "I see a five letter word. F-R-E-E-P. Freep." Jerry: "Freep? What's that?" - Dick Van Dyke Show)
To: MarkL
Read the book.
I never thought about it before I read the book. One actually doesn't think about what it would be like to be born a hermaphrodite. Our society is divided up between male and female....but what if you had BOTH...physically and hormonally? I actually became quite empathetic about these folks...There's more people like this in society than one thinks and the ridicule and embarrassment and confusion in their life is sad. They call themselves the "intersex" gender. Most have an operation at birth to "remove" the "mutation"...but that "mutation" actually includes all sensitivity and nerve endings...so the person grows up not having any of those feelings "down there". (I'm trying to be rated-G in my description).
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posted on
07/25/2003 11:34:10 AM PDT
by
sonserae
To: dubyaismypresident
Bump!
85
posted on
07/25/2003 11:35:56 AM PDT
by
lainde
To: dead
I think marrying your first cousin is legal everywhere. I could be wrong though. It is legal in at least some states, so it is legal in all for the price of a buss ticket.
There are also still States that allow people to get married at unbelievably young ages.
So9
To: Flurry
Should marijuana be legalized?
Who are we to judge?
87
posted on
07/25/2003 11:47:01 AM PDT
by
johnb838
(A sucking chest wound is natures way of telling you to slow down.)
To: johnb838
I certainly haven't. I asked a simple question. If that is judging I must not understand the finer points of the language.
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posted on
07/25/2003 11:48:54 AM PDT
by
Conspiracy Guy
(!!!!!!! sdrawkcab si enilgat ym ,em pleh esaelP)
To: Flurry
Yes
To: ErnBatavia
"I know a guy (Jewish from Noo Joisey - stereotype buster!) who's married to his first cousin. He loves to introduce her as "my wife, my cousin"."
Most states allow first cousins to marry these days. Perhaps you didn't know that.
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posted on
07/25/2003 11:53:40 AM PDT
by
MineralMan
(godless atheist)
To: philosofy123
I agree but for now it isn't legal. And you really think that incest is OK even though family members warned them they are father / daughter? Just a question.
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posted on
07/25/2003 11:56:29 AM PDT
by
Conspiracy Guy
(!!!!!!! sdrawkcab si enilgat ym ,em pleh esaelP)
To: DannyTN
For the life of me, I can't see where the states didn't have a "substantial state interest" in banning homosexual activity. Especially in light of the known spread of disease and the high incidence of homosexual pedophilia and other perversions.Don't construe this as support for homosexual activity, or gay marriage, or anything like that: but given both incidence of occurrence and the number of possible maladies that can be propagated, I'm pretty sure that plain old heterosexual sex is responsible for the spread of far more disease than homosexual sex. Such things as syphilis, gonorrhea, chlamydia, genital warts, herpes, and hepatitis (can't remember if it's A, B, or C that's sexually transmitted, but one of them is) top the list.
So trying to implement a ban on homosexual sex on the basis that it spreads disease wouldn't get very far.
To: MineralMan
I addressed that in my #46....being legal doesn't make it any less weird!
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posted on
07/25/2003 12:00:25 PM PDT
by
ErnBatavia
(Bumperootus!)
To: nickcarraway
Nastassja Kinski's first movie, "Stay As You Are", was about a possibly incestuous sexual relationship.
To: nickcarraway
eh, it's all relative...
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posted on
07/25/2003 12:02:21 PM PDT
by
Hatteras
(The Thundering Herd Of Turtles ROCK!)
To: Flurry
And you really think that incest is OK even though family members warned them they are father / daughter? Just a question. It's OK with me, as long as none of their kids ever want to date any of mine.
So9
To: cogitator
"Nastassja Kinski's first movie, "Stay As You Are", was about a possibly incestuous sexual relationship."
And then there was Pia Zadora in "Butterfly," where she thought she was in an incestuous relationship, but the guy turned out not to be her father.
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posted on
07/25/2003 12:07:54 PM PDT
by
MineralMan
(godless atheist)
To: Servant of the Nine
Thats the whole point. How would you know? Unless they looked like John Kerry? I think artificial insemenation brings a whole new set of problems. Humans are attracted by nature to people that seem like they are. Artificial bro/sis meeting and falling in love is very likely in the future.
98
posted on
07/25/2003 12:09:41 PM PDT
by
Conspiracy Guy
(!!!!!!! sdrawkcab si enilgat ym ,em pleh esaelP)
To: nickcarraway
Referring to a U.S. Supreme Court case that will decide the "constitutionality" of Texas' sodomy law, Santorum, an orthodox Catholic, remarked thusly:
"If the Supreme Court says that you have the right to consensual [gay] sex within your home, then you have the right to bigamy, you have the right to polygamy, you have the right to incest, you have the right to adultery. You have the right to anything."
Within minutes, a mouthpiece from the disingenuously named Human Rights Campaign, a lobby group for sodomy, was on the blower with the newspapers: "It is stunning, stunning in its insensitivity," David Smith told the Philadelphia Inquirer. "Putting homosexuality on the same moral plane as incest is repulsive."
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posted on
07/25/2003 12:22:21 PM PDT
by
TheDon
(Why do liberals always side with the enemies of the US?)
To: nickcarraway
"I told her she was stupid for marrying her own daddy," Shirley Crayne said.Thats a West Virginia line if I ever heard one.
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posted on
07/25/2003 12:26:00 PM PDT
by
Chancellor Palpatine
(...ignorance can be fixed, but stupid is forever...)
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