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Re:Many ‘abnormal’ sexual tastes are neither rare nor unusua... by JoeAltmaier on Friday March 11, 2016 @11:03AM (#11267356)
They don't distinguish from "normal for a healthy human" and "normal for people in Quebec". E.g. If everybody in America is obese, is obesity the new 'normal'? What value is there in that definition?

Don't get me wrong, enjoy whatever you like. But lets understand that humans living in crowded cities may lead us to tastes that our forebears would have found puzzling. That these new tastes may be diagnostic of how our mental processes were formed? Thus still useful measures of our mental health.

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Re:Many ‘abnormal’ sexual tastes are neither rare nor unusua... by neon_skies on Friday March 11, 2016 @11:16AM (#11267447)
Except that the paper is referring to the province of Quebec, not Quebec City...
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Re:Many ‘abnormal’ sexual tastes are neither rare nor unusua... by JoeAltmaier on Friday March 11, 2016 @03:56PM (#11269465)
Almost everybody lives in cities. And, as usual, this survey was of people who have phones and were at home at the time of the survey. SO, middle-class and probably older. If we want to start splitting hairs.
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