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06/10/2004

CONTINUOUS APPRAISAL: Do sexual orgies eliminate social tensions? Oh yeah!

Section Assaults of thoughts
«Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, despite his defense of anti-sodomy laws, told a Harvard University audience this week that he's in favor of orgies. He derided a 2000 decision by the European Court of Human Rights that struck down a British law barring group gay sex because the law invaded privacy. Scalia asked how many people would have to take part in a sex act before it would not be considered private. "Presumably it is some number between five and the number of people required to fill the Coliseum," he said. But Scalia insisted his personal opinions are unrelated to his court decisions. "I even take the position that sexual orgies eliminate social tensions and ought to be encouraged," he said. "But it is blindingly clear that judges have no greater capacity than the rest of us to decide what is moral."»
[Debra Jones, Furthermore - Wired News]

For his boldness at easing off orgy as therapy while sticking firmly non-sodomite Justice Scalia deserves 3 Chateaubriands to reward his mental disorder - he didn't realize how sodomy could enlarge orgy possible participants and combinations and hence eliminate even more social tensions.