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01-17-2008, 10:51 AM
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If a person is engaging in either an inappropriate or illegal act in a "private" stall of a public bathroom (or in a "one-seater" public bathroom where no one else is in there at the time) isn't it still an issue of either public indecency or an illegal act, or lewd and lascivious behavior,depending on what they did? Was the gentleman in the article below entitled to privacy?? cleveland.com: Everything Cleveland
What about George Michael? Was he in a stall or in an open part of the bathroom (anyone remember these details??) If a person is in a bathroom stall mainlining heroin, are they entitled to privacy? I just think that the argument is silly.
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01-17-2008, 11:01 AM
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| mythmom -- follow me here for a moment. If sex in the toilet stalls is a protected privacy interest, could you contact the ACLU to try to expand this to the shower stalls at colleges that are state run (SUNY???) or accept government funding (Barnard, maybe?)?
If so, I could see an argument that being "vertically challenged" is a DISABILITY (?!) and the colleges would have to provide some horizontal contraption to allow you to excercise your --err--rights!!
If anyone has any ideas of the design of the contraption, we (I get part of the action [pardon the pun] for the idea) could patent it and make a fortune!!!! mythmom, you might have to take early retirement (SUNY might not be happy about this), but what the hey.
Maybe we could get Arlo Guthrie to write a song about the "mythmom's aquatic rights movement." You'd be a folk hero--lying down for vertically challenged people everywhere!
Just an idea.
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01-17-2008, 11:04 AM
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It surely is silly, Jym. It stretches the idea of "defending your right to say it" or privacy expectations so far as to be risible.
The "defacating wildly" choice of words was....interesting? I bet this is the first time in the history of the English language that those two words have been used in tandem.
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01-17-2008, 11:08 AM
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LOL. Hm. My kids would be so mortified though. I got into plenty of gross out matches with D's guy friends because my basic theory was if a 50 year old woman doesn't know more about sex than a 17 year-old-boy something is wrong. D said she disdained my antics, but she kept bringing the guys around.
Our house was the hang out house until liquor came into the picture, and I wouldn't let them drink. We live in a very hilly town. Car accidents at the corner of my 45 degree street and the main street galore.
So, it would have to be sotto voce or sub rosa.
07DAD: Your idea, you can run with it.
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01-17-2008, 11:54 AM
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^^^ LOL, stickershock! Yeah, you caught that "defecating wildly" comment too?? As I said in post # 11, the visual it engenders in my mind is... well, you know. Ewwwww.
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01-17-2008, 12:03 PM
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A few college dorm bathrooms have bathtubs. Not many, but I've seen a few.
That could be fun.
When my son lived in the dorms (at a state university -- lots of government money), he often used to see four feet below a shower curtain in the supposedly all-male bathroom (especially on weekends, when people tend to visit from other campuses). They can't ALL have been gay couples.
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01-17-2008, 12:09 PM
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The issue for Craig is not whether sex in A restroom stall is private, but whether sex extending into TWO stalls is.  | |
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01-17-2008, 12:17 PM
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| Marian You can rest assured that they are not all gay feet. Emory 1968 things were changing and the dorms were open (to female guests) on the weekends.
I believe the slogan was: save water, shower with a "friend." Makes me smile today.
mythmom: it cracks me up too when S and his friends assume that they have invented all things sexual.
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01-17-2008, 01:11 PM
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Originally Posted by StickerShock The "defacating wildly" choice of words was....interesting? I bet this is the first time in the history of the English language that those two words have been used in tandem. | Sadly, no. Exhibit A, Exhibit B | |
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01-17-2008, 07:05 PM
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How do you have enough space anyways?
And do you still do it if the toilet seat doesnt have a cover?
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01-20-2008, 11:42 PM
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Are people familiar with the book "Tearoom Trade",
by Humphries? It is a controversial book just about this subject, that I read for a sociology class in the 70's. It was written by a Harvard grad student. His methodology was questionable. Are kids still reading it today?
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01-21-2008, 04:14 AM
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Scatology, you must be thinking of a much older book, like de sade, mimi and Duke. The book I'm asking about was published 1970.
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01-21-2008, 08:29 AM
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Another thread that should go the way of the dodo...
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01-21-2008, 09:04 AM
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I guess it's more fun to hate on the ACLU for pointing out a state's common law and saying that a state should abide by it, than on the Minnesota Supreme Court of 38 years ago for having actually made the ruling about sex in bathroom stalls.
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