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WCDT Strips 3886 - 3890 (3rd - 7th December 2018)
Is it cold in here?:
--- Quote from: Pablo360 on 05 Dec 2018, 18:40 ---I find Bubbles relatable right now, and for once that's NOT a good thing.
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Did someone say welcome already?
Tova:
--- Quote from: BlueAmaranth on 05 Dec 2018, 13:24 ---
--- Quote from: Tova on 05 Dec 2018, 12:25 ---I do not think that he'd be participating in her fetish any more than someone who was asked to teach someone how to maintain their vibrator.
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For one thing, if you're in the business of vibrator maintenance, you've signed up to be adjacent to people's sex lives in that capacity, whereas Elliot has not.
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What does "adjacent to people's sex lives" even mean?
Does, say, baking a wedding cake for a couple about to be married make you "adjacent to their sex lives?" Apparently, some do. I disagree with them.
--- Quote ---For another, a vibrator is typically just a tool of sexual stimulation, not itself the object of a fetish.
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I suspected after I posted that someone would say that, even though it could well be the object of a fetish just the same as anything else would. Being an explicit sexual object doesn't prohibit it from being used as the object of some fetish. Regardless, substitute whichever mundane everyday object you like, if you prefer. It doesn't change my argument.
Anything anyone has ever manufactured could be a fetish for someone. There is no ethical issue.
I'm surprised no-one has brought up an ethical issue with Roko simply walking into the bakery and ordering loaves of bread without disclosing to the baker the purpose for which they are being purchased. Because the issue is the same.
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 05 Dec 2018, 17:59 ---I think I could buy a pair of boots and not be squicked if I found out later that the bootmaker had a boot kink.
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If you are made squeamish by the thought that something you do in public might turn someone on, then walking out your front door could prove to be an insurmountable challenge.
Penquin47:
There's a difference between purchasing goods to be used in whatever manner you deem appropriate (as long as it's not a well-known risk of being illegal, such as buying cough syrup to make meth) and taking a job to work with your fetish object around other people. What you do in your own home is nobody's business but yours (again, as long as it's not illegal), but when you do things around other people, especially in a workplace, you need to be more careful.
brasca:
--- Quote from: DSL on 05 Dec 2018, 19:39 ---And here Bubbles gets a practical lesson in "Just because you can, doesn't mean you should."
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It's one of the less endearing Faye traits to pick up and I wonder if she would've said the same if she was in Bubbles' place.
BlueAmaranth:
--- Quote from: Tova on 05 Dec 2018, 21:33 ---I'm surprised no-one has brought up an ethical issue with Roko simply walking into the bakery and ordering loaves of bread without disclosing to the baker the purpose for which they are being purchased. Because the issue is the same.
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I addressed exactly that question in my original post. It's one thing to walk in, buy the bread, go home and get sexual gratification from it in private. It's a completely different thing to ask another person to give you lessons in a topic that you find sexually gratifying, or to, as Penquin47 put it, "take a job to work with your fetish object around other people." It's a huge increase in the extent to which she's involving other people in her sex life.
Honestly, wouldn't you feel just a little skeeved out if someone came into your workplace and started breathlessly asking you weirdly specific details about your profession while squirming in their chair? Because that's where Roko seems to be headed. She asked Elliot about his relationship with bread specifically in the context of "maybe I should work in a bakery so I can get off on my job all day." She asked to be his apprentice because his reply made it sound like working with bread would amplify the pleasure she gets from her fetish. This is 100% about her sex life and she's making that Elliot's problem when he never asked her to. It's pretty much exactly as inappropriate as a lingerie fetishist trying to get a job at Victoria's Secret for fetish reasons.
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