Lmao godless The only difference between you & them is you got a stick up your ass
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XeroxCool@lemmy.world 2 months agoOr maybe it’s not really unique from other animals, we just have fictional currency and choosy morality. Every animal I can think of has the male doing all the courting work. Male spiders dance, birds sing and survive with brighter colors, bugs may lose their heads, giraffes punch females in the bladder to see if they’re even ready for sex, straight female prostitution drastically outweighs straight males, etc. It seems like the one who has to actually develop the offspring has the option to be much choosier. So did the capuchin prostitute herself or is that our morality being imposed on godless creatures who likely see no difference between sex, cleaning, or feeding each other as each is some type of need?
kemsat@lemmy.world 2 months ago
XeroxCool@lemmy.world 2 months ago
At no point was “godless” meant as an insult. I have no god. Doesn’t change the fact that a large portion of my definitions of moral behavior are rooted in my local dominant religion’s opinion.
littlebluespark@lemmy.world 2 months ago
FFS. Are you 12?
littlebluespark@lemmy.world 2 months ago
So many logical fallacies to unpack, and no formatting to assist in legibility? Nah, I’m good.
0001@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
No wonder I’m still single.
Taco2112@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The capuchin engaged in sexual activity for payment, call it what you want but that pretty much the dictionary definition of prostitution. It’s not a moral or god question it’s semantics.
XeroxCool@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You can pay someone to pretend to be romantic on a date, to give you a massage, or to use their bodies for labor tasks. What exactly makes sex different?
littlebluespark@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Your argument is shit and you know it. Jog on.
Taco2112@lemmy.world 2 months ago
From Wikipedia:The definition of “sexual activity” varies, and is often defined as an activity requiring physical contact (e.g., sexual intercourse, non-penetrative sex, manual sex, oral sex, etc.) with the customer.
XeroxCool@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Thanks for a reasonable response that cites a similar argument that I clearly didn’t deliver well. Maybe I sent the wrong message with the borderline incel line about males doing all the courtship work. I’m aware of how it’s defined but people here are acting incredibly blunt because everyone “knows” prostitution’s meaning. My point was it is sort of vaguely defined if you try to define each component in different regions. So if there’s flexibility there, then what other variation is there? The dictionary’s authors don’t make the rules - they write down how the population agrees to use it. Prime example: Meriam has a a 2nd definition for “literally” that defines it as “virtually”.
I thought we could have a reasonable discussion here but instead I managed to get a bunch of reddit knowitalls. I thought, within a secular crowd, we could reduce the meaning of “prostitution” without morality, but I could certainly agree with South Park’s expansion of the term.
chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Literally the definition of the word.
XeroxCool@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The authors of dictionaries tell you what a word means in common usage. They don’t set the rules. If you don’t beleive there’s flexibility in definitions, look up your own word: literally. Meriam has a second definition of “virtually”