Some mainstream attention

[gekkogecko]

Local newspspser, about a local event: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/04/AR2010020403757.html?hpid=topnews

Mostly sympathetic, although I am annoyed that they published the full name and address of the party thrower , and the place that the party guests use to park their cars during the parties. Makes the harassment job by the fundamentalist prudes ever so much easier, y'know? If you read the comments, you find they are already talking about harassment.

[AZRedHot]

So if 25 couples in their neighborhood are having sex at that very hour, that's fine. But if they're all in the same house and wearing leather, it's a problem.

Americans are so fucked up about fucking. It's so unnecessarily sad.

[Oldfart]

People have lost the ability to distinguish between the commands of religion and basic right and wrong.

If my religion says that it's fish for dinner on Fridays, and you're eating steak, what a bad person you must be.

There are a few quotes in the new Dale Brown book from an Islamic scholar which are really appropriate.

[AZRedHot]

That's an excellent point, Oldfart. I don't confuse those two things, so it never occurred to me that anyone would. But you're right.

[jseal]

People have lost the ability to distinguish between the commands of religion and basic right and wrong.
I do not recall a time when, as a group, they were able to.

[PantyFanatic]

….It's really very, very diverse -- though we do have an unusually high percentage of lawyers. I don't know why."

That's easy. It's because they're lawyers and only get to make people miserable at work and need to inflict torture in the off hours.

[headhead]

I do not recall a time when, as a group, they were able to.
Religion is a shortcut to casuistry.

In any event, this appears to me like a Post staffer on a self-gratification story. Who doesn't want to get paid to do an investigation of unusual sex practices?

As newspapers lose out to the Internet, watch for more soft news like this.

[jseal]

... As newspapers lose out to the Internet, watch for more soft news like this.
headhead,

Yes. I wonder how many, if any, of the daily broadsheets will survive.

[gekkogecko]

So if 25 couples in their neighborhood are having sex at that very hour, that's fine. But if they're all in the same house and wearing leather, it's a problem.

Well, legally speaking, it's a problem if the party-thrower is charging for admission, or being perceived as charging for admission. Then it's a commercial business. Yeah, there's a town councilman & some neighbors who are nasty mind-control prudes, but they don't have a legitimate complaint if the host can figure a way around the "business" angle.