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To: FreepinforTerri
Um...no, I take charge of my BEHAVIOR.

As do people who are careful about their birth control.

Why do you not understand that it's perfectly acceptable to NOT be a whore?

Other than strippers, I've only known one or two real-life whores.

580 posted on 05/06/2005 9:32:28 AM PDT by Modernman ("Work is the curse of the drinking classes." -Oscar Wilde)
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To: Modernman; FreepinforTerri
Other than strippers, I've only known one or two real-life whores.

"To whore" is to corrupt by lewd intercourse.

"A whore" is someone who has unlawful sex.

The law and morality (lewdness) referred to there in common useage in the Anglosphere is that of classical Christianity. That would then include by common understanding of Christian sexual morality the specific sins of fornication, adultery, incest, prostitution, sodomy, rape (by the rapist), and unnatural intercourse (i.e. using birth control). See the classic explanation in any number of theological manuals such as the Summa of St. Thomas.

Surely you know more than a couple of people who could fit into that definition. Or do you wish to go about redefining words on us because they make you uncomfortable?

592 posted on 05/06/2005 10:00:27 AM PDT by Hermann the Cherusker
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