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How do you weigh in on the Vance-couch conversation?

11.06.2025 23:57

How do you weigh in on the Vance-couch conversation?

Decadent Girl by Ramon Casas. Public domain.

Vance didn’t, or that’s the story. And honestly, I believe it. He’s a bit too uptight for that sort of thing.

I don’t see what’s wrong with banging couches.

Why does a college girl cover her face with a scarf in Bangalore?

But what if he had? Why are we shaming him for this? Why would we shame anyone for this?

This, if he’d done it, would be perfectly okay.

It’s a creative form of masturbation that may feel pretty darn good.

According to the Gita, how do I abandon fruits of my karma? Should I donate my whole salary and stay hungry?

Creativity is also good, especially as the story would cause no harm to the couch and didn’t involve any direct contact with it. There’s no ick factor here, just a young person having fun in a way that doesn’t harm or impose upon anyone else.

We need to stop shaming people for healthy activities they do in the privacy of their own homes.

Masturbation isn’t bad. It provides most of the benefits of sex, many of which actively improve human health, with zero risk of disease or pregnancy. It is an objectively good thing that most of us ought to do more often. Not for pleasure, though pleasure is also good, but for our health.

For those who were actually old enough to have experienced the 1970s and not for those who were born in the 70s. What were the pros and cons of that era?