San Francisco may become safe for prostitutes - CNN.com
Awesome. If this passes we'll finally begin to get good data on the relationship between sexual denial and apathy. I think Orwell said it best.
I see a day, not long in coming, where Americans of all sort will be able to acquire all of their animal needs at a reasonable cost in a setting as free of harassment as your local cafe. Then we will see a return of the kind of philanthropy that we were once famous for.
When that day comes and we're not at eachother's throats for sex or food or shelter the way we are now you'll see a third Renaissance of human creativity and compassion begin.
San Francisco may become safe for prostitutes
* Story Highlights
* Proposition K, on ballot next month, would decriminalize prostitution
* Proponents say it would free police to focus on other crimes
* Many officials oppose the idea, saying it would make city a haven for prostitutes
* Measure would make it tough to tackle trafficking, police official saysSAN FRANCISCO, California (AP) -- In this live-and-let-live town, where medical marijuana clubs do business next to grocery stores and an annual fair celebrates sadomasochism, prostitutes could soon walk the streets without fear of arrest.
Awesome. If this passes we'll finally begin to get good data on the relationship between sexual denial and apathy. I think Orwell said it best.
Unlike Winston, she had grasped the inner
meaning of the Party's sexual puritanism. It was not merely that the sex
instinct created a world of its own which was outside the Party's control
and which therefore had to be destroyed if possible. What was more
important was that sexual privation induced hysteria, which was desirable
because it could be transformed into war-fever and leader-worship. The way
she put it was:
'When you make love you're using up energy; and afterwards you feel happy
and don't give a damn for anything. They can't bear you to feel like that.
They want you to be bursting with energy all the time. All this marching
up and down and cheering and waving flags is simply sex gone sour.
I see a day, not long in coming, where Americans of all sort will be able to acquire all of their animal needs at a reasonable cost in a setting as free of harassment as your local cafe. Then we will see a return of the kind of philanthropy that we were once famous for.
When that day comes and we're not at eachother's throats for sex or food or shelter the way we are now you'll see a third Renaissance of human creativity and compassion begin.
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