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Erotica is what you like, porn is what you don't like. The terms have no other meaning. More female equality will not equal less porn at least on the demand side, it will equal more because fewer men will have what it takes to impress women. There is more INTERNET porn in repressive countries because this is the only way they can get it. Just like there is more pay-per-view porn in Utah than New York. But there is not less interest in porn in new york, there are just more different ways to see it so there isn't the same pent up demand for pay per view in a hotel. By the way the market is not saturated(sorry, well not really) even in liberal areas. In fact lots of men still have to hide it from their wives and girlfriends. Look at the explosion of ipod porn, when another level of privacy became available (since unlike a desktop computer no one else sees your i-pod). Sorry tina MEN LIKE SEX and UNLIKE WOMEN they don't ONLY LIKE IT UNDER VERY SPECIFIC CONDITIONS. The question is whether women can succeed in forcing men to conform to what women want, it's hard to say, some evidence suggests that in certain areas they might be able to, in others maybe not.
and black craziness WILL be held to a higher standard of scrutiny because blacks are a minority which the majority has a highly "sensitive" reaction to. Deal with it or you won't get elected.
This is absolutely false. They crack down where it makes the biggest splash. If they were really interested in stopping trafficing and abuse they would ENCOURAGE adult women to work independently on craigslist. They don't, they bust it ALL THE TIME BECAUSE IF THEY DIDN"T THERE WOULD BE LOTS OF WOMEN WORKING IT AND IT WOULD BECOME AS MAINSTREAM AS PORN IS. By never allowing an open look Tina and those like hare are able to maintain their fantasies, just like she fantasized in the 80s that every porn set was a rape scene.
there would be no need for all the overhead caused by it's illegality. Any average or better looking girl who likes sex could get paid for it, just like gay boys do now (although their would be more opportunities for more women because there are more straight men than gay men and because there are many more women than men who are off the unpaid market). This is the scenario that Tina AND the cultural right are of one mind in their desperation to prevent.
Only the stupid ones; the currently developing mess of the financial system will convince everyone informed and rational that the total absence of govt. oversight doesn't work. Even if the US buys the bullshit the rest of the world will have to quarantine the lunatics.
the US was on it's only remaining superpower high and was more economically, politically and culturally dominant "the indispensable nation", etc. than it will be. It won't really be an internationally politically practical option for the US to go around the world fighting wars, at least not without international support.
it is probably true though that the number of people in the military who have CHANGED THEIR MINDS is greater than the general population but that may only be because more were wrong to start with and because failure in Iraq has thwarted, at least in the short term, their political goals at home.
although a lot of it is. A LOT of it is because she is a Clinton. and the reason HE got treated extra special is because he was BOTH white trash AND a democrat. Reagan was white trash and a Republican and Kennedy and Roosevelt were rich. Does ANYONE believe that if either of the Bushes, or Reagan had gotten a blow job from an intern that anything which in an way resembled what happened to the Clintons would have happenned to them. If they claim to believe that they would have they are either ignorant, crazy or lying
does the same thing.
because there are so many things that can cause change. For instance social interactions within a species can produce change even when the environment is stable. There is some evidence that humans have undergone evolutionary change recently. Obviously the changes are somewhat subtle, but they may be real.
those of high rank and those who played a bigger role in the hunt get more and those most closely related to them get more than those less so.
the thing is they look and act about as much like women as some people who claim in all seriousness to BE women. That's why it's funny.
men can't have a similar power based on attractiveness alone, so the whole concept doesn't work with men. Adding to the humor in the case of women is that so many women DENY this fact and then ALL women expect to have their asses kissed the way hot women do and claim discrimination and abuse when this doesn't happen.
to prepare them than the ones women make. Even the asparagus. It costs money, but it's simple to prepare.
than the old guys.
they eat as much as men do relative to their caloric output, that's why men and women are equally fat, more or less. Women just feel more deprived and complain more. Many more men than women are muscular enough to be BMI "fat" so this has a few percentage point effect. In general of course every fat person, male and female, claims to be "muscular" and of course it is usually a lie, with women it invariably is.
and everyone knows what it is.
paying for it?! what happened to your theory that all prostitution is about men paying for the right to abuse women?
obviously if women pay for sex than the falsity of that proposition is demonstrated. You might ask yourself why you have such trouble grasping such basic logic.