Substitutes for actual affection

[Tahar Joblis]

You have a rather interesting definition of the term "affection"

See assorted posts on the first page. Yes, not the best choice of term. Just answer the question posed.

[Celephais]

Erotic fiction is not really so far from pornography. I've heard the Victorians had an amusing term - "books read with one hand".

Fuck morality, fuck derision, fuck policies. If morals are based on anything other than empathy and the principle of avoiding harm and suffering, they are inherently dangerous to our species and infect us like a virus.

Yeah, well, that's just, like, your opinion, man.

[Raeyh]

Erotic fiction is not really so far from pornography. I've heard the Victorians had an amusing term - "books read with one hand".

Some erotic fiction is not sexually explicit at all, though. Nabokov's Lolita would be a good example.

[Bontivate]

If there ain't no victim it ain't a crime (with exceptions towards some drug use, as they can make you more likely to commit a crime with a victim). If you wanna have gay sex in a Jacuzzi of bubbling lubricant and pudding using vibrators and sex dolls in addition to two other men and a married women, well, that might disgust me but as long as everyone consents go nuts.

[Celephais]

If there ain't no victim it ain't a crime (with exceptions towards some drug use, as they can make you more likely to commit a crime with a victim). If you wanna have gay sex in a Jacuzzi of bubbling lubricant and pudding using vibrators and sex dolls in addition to two other men and a married women, well, that might disgust me but as long as everyone consents go nuts.

The law, of course, does not necessarily have much to do with personal morality. I think it's absolutely okay to judge people positively or negative for what they do "in private behind closed doors".

[Lackadaisical2]

If there ain't no victim it ain't a crime (with exceptions towards some drug use, as they can make you more likely to commit a crime with a victim). If you wanna have gay sex in a Jacuzzi of bubbling lubricant and pudding using vibrators and sex dolls in addition to two other men and a married women, well, that might disgust me but as long as everyone consents go nuts.

A strangely specific example... someone has some 'splainin' to do.

[Raeyh]

If there ain't no victim it ain't a crime (with exceptions towards some drug use, as they can make you more likely to commit a crime with a victim). If you wanna have gay sex in a Jacuzzi of bubbling lubricant and pudding using vibrators and sex dolls in addition to two other men and a married women, well, that might disgust me but as long as everyone consents go nuts.

Wouldn't the husband of that wife be a victim? Now his wife is possibly bearing a bastard child and all sort of legitimacy concerns will come up when it comes to inheritance.

[New Rogernomics]

Sex dolls are disturbing, the rest I can tolerate.