The Fetish thread.

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I don't think so (The adults thinking of teenagers, not the grandmother masturbating thing.) Also I think for the sake of comparison when need to say "elderly woman" and not "grandmother" as the latter also has an element of incest which makes it more digusting. And thanks for making me imagine my grandmother masturbating, you evil person you.

Anyways, I suspect that most adults do have sexual thoughts about teenagers. At least those on the older end of it, like 17-19. Any younger than that and you're starting to get into borderline pedo territory, but I don't think it's weird for a 30 year old man to find a 17 or 18 year old girl attractive. I do think it's inappropriate for him to attempt to act on these desires, due to the maturity differences, however.

[Image]

Yeah.....tell me you wouldn't

Ephebophilia?

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[Image]

Yeah.....tell me you wouldn't

Ephebophilia?

I stay away from HighSchools

[Mercator Terra]

Ephebophilia?

I stay away from HighSchools

16-19
Wouldn't "jailbait" be in that category?

[The Norwegian Blue]

t is nonetheless repugnant to most adults to think about, in the same way that you probably don't want to think about your grandmother masturbating, even though she almost certainly does so.

I don't think so (The adults thinking of teenagers, not the grandmother masturbating thing.) Also I think for the sake of comparison when need to say "elderly woman" and not "grandmother" as the latter also has an element of incest which makes it more digusting. And thanks for making me imagine my grandmother masturbating, you evil person you.

Anyways, I suspect that most adults do have sexual thoughts about teenagers. At least those on the older end of it, like 17-19. Any younger than that and you're starting to get into borderline pedo territory, but I don't think it's weird for a 30 year old man to find a 17 or 18 year old girl attractive. I do think it's inappropriate for him to attempt to act on these desires, due to the maturity differences, however.

I doubt it's actually "most," but I don't dispute that many adults, particularly men, seem to like the idea of a "barely legal" partner (in theory, at least - I suspect fewer are genuinely attracted to adolescents in practice, and that a lot of the appeal of the "barely legal teen" in porn and erotica is simply the idea that it's taboo or illicit). Speaking for myself, I stopped finding teenagers attractive right around the time I stopped being a teenager. I care enough about the emotional and intellectual component of sexual attraction that "my brain hasn't fully developed!" is a pretty big turn-off.

[The Norwegian Blue]

Yeah, that would...suck? I'd...hate it if every post here read like it was written by someone who knew what he was talking about?

Just because being talked to like you are child happens to be your fetish, doesn't mean we all enjoy it.

TCT has never talked to me like I'm a child. Funny, that...

[GeneralHaNor]

I stay away from HighSchools

16-19
Wouldn't "jailbait" be in that category?

yes

[Motuka]

why must all claims/statements/opinions, even those made in jest need sources?

If everyone held to that rule, every post would like it was written by The Cat Tribe.

Yeah, that would...suck? I'd...hate it if every post here read like it was written by someone who knew what he was talking about?

1. No you wouldn't. I will quote from the American Journal of Knowing What You're Talking About^[1]:

Recent studies suggest that, if everyone wrote the way The Cat-Tribe does, internet forums would rapidly oscillate between dull and hilarious depending on the posters' writing styles. Evidence for this statement is provided in, e.g. Michael Ock's article Towards A Postmodern Quantum Dishwasher Theory of Sociology: Vestiges of Post-Capitalist Artifacts In Feminist Cryptozoology (2007, AJKWYTA, ed. Acraca, Juan). Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit, sed diam nonummy nibh euismod tincidunt ut laoreet dolore magna aliquam erat volutpat.

2. Furthermore^[2], there is no evidence to suggest that the quality^[3] of the forums would increase^[4] under your suggestion. Why have you failed to address this?^[5]

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References:

Case, Justin. Information You Need To Know. Springfield: Apagadunwuckee University Press, 1997. ISBN 3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510
File, Alexa. How To Source: Maximising Your Utility of Search Engines. Christmas Islands: Creepy Publications, 2009. ISBN Pagerank #32,767
Ott, Euranide. Facts Still Matter: Sourcing in the Age of Soundbites. New York City: Revolutionary Publications, 2006. ISBN AM-820
Shised, E. Said. The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Internet Debaters. Milwaukee: We Like The Number Seven Press, 2007. ISBN 77777777-17
Trolman, Ima. I'm Being A Dick: Why The Internet Still Finds "Trolling" Funny. Idaho: Vanity Press, 2003. ISBN 9001

[GeneralHaNor]

Yeah, that would...suck? I'd...hate it if every post here read like it was written by someone who knew what he was talking about?

1. No you wouldn't. I will quote from the American Journal of Knowing What You're Talking About^[1]:

Recent studies suggest that, if everyone wrote the way The Cat-Tribe does, internet forums would rapidly oscillate between dull and hilarious depending on the posters' writing styles. Evidence for this statement is provided in, e.g. Michael Ock's article Towards A Postmodern Quantum Dishwasher Theory of Sociology: Vestiges of Post-Capitalist Artifacts In Feminist Cryptozoology (2007, AJKWYTA, ed. Acraca, Juan). Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit, sed diam nonummy nibh euismod tincidunt ut laoreet dolore magna aliquam erat volutpat.

2. Furthermore^[2], there is no evidence to suggest that the quality^[3] of the forums would increase^[4] under your suggestion. Why have you failed to address this?^[5]

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References:

Case, Justin. Information You Need To Know. Springfield: Apagadunwuckee University Press, 1997. ISBN 3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510
File, Alexa. How To Source: Maximising Your Utility of Search Engines. Christmas Islands: Creepy Publications, 2009. ISBN Pagerank #32,767
Ott, Euranide. Facts Still Matter: Sourcing in the Age of Soundbites. New York City: Revolutionary Publications, 2006. ISBN AM-820
Shised, E. Said. The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Internet Debaters. Milwaukee: We Like The Number Seven Press, 2007. ISBN 77777777-17
Trolman, Ima. I'm Being A Dick: Why The Internet Still Finds "Trolling" Funny. Idaho: Vanity Press, 2003. ISBN 9001

This is 10 levels of brilliant

[Meryuma]

Just because being talked to like you are child happens to be your fetish, doesn't mean we all enjoy it.

TCT has never talked to me like I'm a child. Funny, that...

TCT is generally more likely to treat you respectfully and properly address your arguments the less radical your ideas are.

[The Norwegian Blue]

Yeah, that would...suck? I'd...hate it if every post here read like it was written by someone who knew what he was talking about?

1. No you wouldn't. I will quote from the American Journal of Knowing What You're Talking About^[1]:

Recent studies suggest that, if everyone wrote the way The Cat-Tribe does, internet forums would rapidly oscillate between dull and hilarious depending on the posters' writing styles. Evidence for this statement is provided in, e.g. Michael Ock's article Towards A Postmodern Quantum Dishwasher Theory of Sociology: Vestiges of Post-Capitalist Artifacts In Feminist Cryptozoology (2007, AJKWYTA, ed. Acraca, Juan). Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit, sed diam nonummy nibh euismod tincidunt ut laoreet dolore magna aliquam erat volutpat.

2. Furthermore^[2], there is no evidence to suggest that the quality^[3] of the forums would increase^[4] under your suggestion. Why have you failed to address this?^[5]

---

References:

Case, Justin. Information You Need To Know. Springfield: Apagadunwuckee University Press, 1997. ISBN 3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510
File, Alexa. How To Source: Maximising Your Utility of Search Engines. Christmas Islands: Creepy Publications, 2009. ISBN Pagerank #32,767
Ott, Euranide. Facts Still Matter: Sourcing in the Age of Soundbites. New York City: Revolutionary Publications, 2006. ISBN AM-820
Shised, E. Said. The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Internet Debaters. Milwaukee: We Like The Number Seven Press, 2007. ISBN 77777777-17
Trolman, Ima. I'm Being A Dick: Why The Internet Still Finds "Trolling" Funny. Idaho: Vanity Press, 2003. ISBN 9001

Heh, cute.

[The Norwegian Blue]

TCT has never talked to me like I'm a child. Funny, that...

TCT is generally more likely to treat you respectfully and properly address your arguments the less radical your ideas are.

*snort*

Yes, that's it. It's not that he, like pretty much everyone else on here, is snarkier to people who make dumb arguments and people who can't back their shit up. He's just The Man, trying to keep down "radical" ideas. Fight the power, kiddo!

(In between fighting the powah, though, you might want to get back to the actual topic of this thread, unless whining about lawyers is your fetish. )

[Motuka]

TCT has never talked to me like I'm a child. Funny, that... :p

TCT is generally more likely to treat you respectfully and properly address your arguments the less radical your ideas are.

How well-thought-out and sourced those ideas are also plays a factor.

There's nothing really unreasonable about this -- for someone who prefers that style of debate, it's undoubtedly more interesting to argue against those who can back up their positions and ideas than those who can't. Extremist political views, not having been tried much in practice, obviously lack a lot of empirical support.

(As for the writing style, that's not "talking down" so much as "being very precise" -- at least in ideal circumstances; in non-ideal circumstances it looks more like my parody above -- which is what one would expect from a lawyer.)

[Meryuma]

TCT is generally more likely to treat you respectfully and properly address your arguments the less radical your ideas are.

How well-thought-out and sourced those ideas are also plays a factor.

There's nothing really unreasonable about this -- for someone who prefers that style of debate, it's undoubtedly more interesting to argue against those who can back up their positions and ideas than those who can't. Extremist political views, not having been tried much in practice, obviously lack a lot of empirical support.

(As for the writing style, that's not "talking down" so much as "being very precise" -- at least in ideal circumstances; in non-ideal circumstances it looks more like my parody above -- which is what one would expect from a lawyer.)

You're ignoring the whole "and properly address your arguments" part. TCT once used sources about child sexual abuse against me for wanting to legalize consensual sex between adults and teenagers, with a precise definition of "consent" that was completely ignored. I think they also said something to the effect of "consensual sex can still be abusive" and didn't cite that claim...

Also, "extremist" usually means "violent", and that's not the same as "radical".

[Nulono]

Ephebophila, vorarephilia, bondage

[Terrasricas]

smoking
exhibitionism
S&M (mostly as the M)
humiliation
miscegenation (not sure if this counts as a fetish)
watersports
anything kinky

[Meryuma]

TCT is generally more likely to treat you respectfully and properly address your arguments the less radical your ideas are.

*snort*

Yes, that's it. It's not that he, like pretty much everyone else on here, is snarkier to people who make dumb arguments and people who can't back their shit up. He's just The Man, trying to keep down "radical" ideas. Fight the power, kiddo!

(In between fighting the powah, though, you might want to get back to the actual topic of this thread, unless whining about lawyers is your fetish. )

I never claimed that he's trying to keep people down, just that he seems to look down on people whose views substantially differ from the mainstream.

[Caecili]

A little bit of machinophilia, a little bit of S&M, and a whole lot of epistemophilia.

I also have a thing for villains, but there isn't a word for that, is there? Malumphilia? I'm going to go with that.

[Rolamec]

I like rusty spoons.

[Minoriteeburg]

Lemme guess, dinosaur porn

Actually, scalie stuff, but yeah.

I'll drink to that.

[Meryuma]

A little bit of machinophilia, a little bit of S&M, and a whole lot of epistemophilia.

I also have a thing for villains, but there isn't a word for that, is there? Malumphilia? I'm going to go with that.

What is epistemophilia? Like, you jack off to Feyerabend or what?

[Caecili]

A little bit of machinophilia, a little bit of S&M, and a whole lot of epistemophilia.

I also have a thing for villains, but there isn't a word for that, is there? Malumphilia? I'm going to go with that.

What is epistemophilia? Like, you jack off to Feyerabend or what?

You know how dirty talk turns some people on?
It's like that.
Talk nerdy to me

[Meryuma]

What is epistemophilia? Like, you jack off to Feyerabend or what?

You know how dirty talk turns some people on?
It's like that.
Talk nerdy to me

Oh yeah, baby. Stick your coherentism right up my pragmatic theory of truth.

...wait, what?

[The Truth and Light]

You know how dirty talk turns some people on?
It's like that.
Talk nerdy to me

Oh yeah, baby. Stick your coherentism right up my pragmatic theory of truth.

...wait, what?

I am, read my lips, loling, out loud.

[Minoriteeburg]

What is epistemophilia? Like, you jack off to Feyerabend or what?

You know how dirty talk turns some people on?
It's like that.
Talk nerdy to me

I am gonna upgrade your hard drive with my RAM.

[The Truth and Light]

What is epistemophilia? Like, you jack off to Feyerabend or what?

You know how dirty talk turns some people on?
It's like that.
Talk nerdy to me

Baby, I am about to study with you all night.