Do Restaurants Cater to Mankind's Lowest and Most Primal and Base Desires?

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In the brothels thread, a sub-strain developed debating whether sex could/should ever be "just for fun" or something to that effect. How is the sex drive any different from the human desire to eat, sleep, or play Nintendo? Should we consider people dangerously promiscuous if they eat at restaurants with people to whom they are not in a loving, committed relationship? Is it dangerous to eat at multiple restaurants in one day (without wearing a latex bib)? Is a restaurant just a food brothel? Is it wrong to sleep in a motel? Why has society (almost all societies, actually, not just the west) demonized the sex drive and peppered it with taboos that don't apply to other basic urges?

― Skottie, Saturday, 15 November 2003 05:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I am not the amazing Randy.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 15 November 2003 05:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Although, I suppose, most societies have food taboos. And, Ned, oh yes you so are the amazing Randy.

― Skottie, Saturday, 15 November 2003 05:59 (twenty-one years ago)

WAH

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 15 November 2003 06:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Well in Seattle, they're prostituting sushi!!!

― phil-two (phil-two), Saturday, 15 November 2003 06:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Please ex-shplain!! (sean connery voice)

― Skottie, Saturday, 15 November 2003 06:38 (twenty-one years ago)

i so want there to be a restaurant called "eat my fuc"

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Saturday, 15 November 2003 07:06 (twenty-one years ago)

nobody worth speaking to actually thinks people's sex lives need to be regulated by the government.

― D Aziz (esquire1983), Saturday, 15 November 2003 07:41 (twenty-one years ago)

nobody worth speaking to actually thinks people's sex lives need to be regulated by the government.

oh, really?

― John Ashcroft (llamasfur), Saturday, 15 November 2003 07:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Would you be more comfortable having your daughter be a prostitute or a waitress?

― bnw (bnw), Saturday, 15 November 2003 07:57 (twenty-one years ago)

If waitresses unionized, they wouldn't be soliciting tips out on the street.

― Skottie, Saturday, 15 November 2003 19:34 (twenty-one years ago)

ditto rabbis. Thank you! I'll be here all week.

― Skottie, Saturday, 15 November 2003 19:36 (twenty-one years ago)

"No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public."

― Huckleberry Mencken, Saturday, 15 November 2003 20:40 (twenty-one years ago)

well I went to Longhorn Steak house yesterday and I was able to eat about one third of what they gave me. i felt like they were trying to fatten me up so they could eat me. christ, no wonder we are all obese,we have bee taught to eat 'til you drop

― Mike Hanle y (mike), Sunday, 16 November 2003 10:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I think people are afraid of sex because it has greater consequences than dining. Like... babies. I mean... A WHOLE BABY! Versus, you know, an upset stomach.

Of course now we have contraception. But who said people were rational? It makes sense to take sex not entirely lightly... but demonizing it causes more problems than it solves. Er, understatement of the year, but you get my point...

And isn't there a lot of moralizing about food, too? Yes, too much of stuff is unhealthy, but that doesn't mean you have to go into conniptions every time you need to eat. If have to I proofread one more restaurant review that calls something like chocolate sauce "decadent," I'm going to scream. You want decadent, you put ORPHAN BLOOD on your sundae.

― Ann Sterzinger (Ann Sterzinger), Monday, 17 November 2003 02:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I think people are afraid of sex because it has greater consequences than dining. Like... babies. I mean... A WHOLE BABY! Versus,
you know, an upset stomach.

Obviously, you've never been to an H.Mann dinner party!

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 17 November 2003 16:09 (twenty-one years ago)

(we play Truth of Consequences)

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 17 November 2003 16:09 (twenty-one years ago)

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