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Re:Half a Million Kinksters Can't Be Wrong by carapace on Saturday October 07, 2023 @10:31AM (#37802009)
> organized religion, marriage, sexual norms, social duty, gender roles, and cultural traditions

Well, most of that is highly variable and contingent, local. Ask an anthropologist, they'll tell you.

Personally, I don't think one should prescribe the "one true" form of family for other people.

The question you raise in my mind is "What are you going to do to the non-conformists?"

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Re:Half a Million Kinksters Can't Be Wrong by zelse on Sunday October 08, 2023 @02:47AM (#37808390)
This is indeed /exactly/ what I wondered once people started quoting St. Paul, and as a historian, the implications aren't great.
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