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Perfectly Normal, Perfectly Healthy
As with nude beaches, this probably isn't as fun as it sounds:
The Delbecchis, husband and wife since 1978, are "echangistes," French for "swingers," who for the past 21 years have been visiting clubs like L'Orage (Thunderstorm) to have consensual sex in a group with one or more other people.For future outings, they will no longer have to fear police will raid the club and arrest them for being in a "bawdy house," a place where prostitution or acts of public indecency take place.
In a landmark decision on Dec, 21, the Supreme Court of Canada lifted a ban on swingers' clubs, ruling that group sex among consenting adults is neither prostitution nor a threat to society.
Not fun because, as with the above mentioned beaches, those who wish to be seen at such places tend to be people you don't want to see at such places.
Meh... pay your taxes, stay out of trouble, yadda yadda yadda...
Saw their pic as it was posted in the article. Agree - this isn't something you want to think about.
Heh. The really important part is that there's finally an actual standard for obscenity beyond "what the community will tolerate" - specifically, in fact,[1] "the court judged that as long as it was being done among consenting adults, none of whom were demonstrably harmed in the process, and behind closed doors where it won't frighten horses and children, it was nobody else's business, and decidedly not the law's."
- which is just about right. The outnumbered loonies insisting that this will "erode the moral fibre of the country!" are the same outnumbered loonies who think that gay marriage is an infringement on their religious freedom despite it having absolutely nothing to do with religion at all.
Which is why, incidentally, that they'll never manage to form a government and put any of their *sane* ideas into play - they focus on the insane ones and never present an alternative that the majority of the country might accept.
[1]: I had a URL here to the source, but your filter thinks that Canada dot com is "questionable content".
Posted by: John on December 29, 2005 10:31 AM"Which is why, incidentally, that they'll never manage to form a government and put any of their *sane* ideas into play - they focus on the insane ones and never present an alternative that the majority of the country might accept."
Something the fringe Repubs, DNC leadership, and the entire Libertarian Party have in common.
"Wow, we got a thirty minute spot on a major network's news! We could present our ideas for tax reform, or reining in frivolous lawsuits..."
"Dude, we should just spend the whole time demanding legalized marijuana and advertizing colloidal silver."
"Works for me!"
Posted by: Tatterdemalian on December 29, 2005 11:38 AM