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How do you weigh in on the Vance-couch conversation?

Last Updated: 17.06.2025 06:52

How do you weigh in on the Vance-couch conversation?

Vance didn’t, or that’s the story. And honestly, I believe it. He’s a bit too uptight for that sort of thing.

Decadent Girl by Ramon Casas. Public domain.

But what if he had? Why are we shaming him for this? Why would we shame anyone for this?

Why can’t the British eat or drink anything unless they place a table cloth on the table first?

I don’t see what’s wrong with banging couches.

This, if he’d done it, would be perfectly okay.

Masturbation isn’t bad. It provides most of the benefits of sex, many of which actively improve human health, with zero risk of disease or pregnancy. It is an objectively good thing that most of us ought to do more often. Not for pleasure, though pleasure is also good, but for our health.

Were the 1980s as uptight and prudish as movies and TV shows make them out to be? When I think of 80s culture, I think about a very "icky" judgmental yuppie status quo time period.

It’s a creative form of masturbation that may feel pretty darn good.

We need to stop shaming people for healthy activities they do in the privacy of their own homes.

Creativity is also good, especially as the story would cause no harm to the couch and didn’t involve any direct contact with it. There’s no ick factor here, just a young person having fun in a way that doesn’t harm or impose upon anyone else.

I gave him everything. He said he loved me. Why?