The Gay Thread

Actually, I would have a good laugh if you instructed your kids not to kiss when they get married.

Quote: rxwine

Actually, I would have a good laugh if you instructed your kids not to kiss when they get married.

I was instructed never to open your mouth when kissing a girl. My religious aunt told me this. So of course from then on that's what I wanted to do. My sister and her girlfriends used to talk and giggle about it, about making out with a boy. People have no idea these days what those times were like. When Lucy and Desi were forced to sleep in twin beds on their TV show because the audience might think about them having sex if they were in a double bed. How they couldn't mention the word pregnant when Lucy was having a child because it might force members of the audience to think about how she got pregnant. It was the Catholic church that was behind all of this of course because to them sex was the dirtiest filthiest thing you could ever do. God hates sex.

Life is an unsanitary and unsurvivable adventure. There is crap everywhere that can kill people and, at some point, none of us survive. Giving up the pleasures of a great kiss and other things that may be ruled by some to be "dirty" is not something I am going to consider. I don't really care what they do, or don't do, in Japan or in a Superboy movie. Both are easy enough to either enjoy or ignore.

Quote: RonC

Life is an unsanitary and unsurvivable adventure. There is crap everywhere that can kill people and, at some point, none of us survive. Giving up the pleasures of a great kiss and other things that may be ruled by some to be "dirty" is not something I am going to consider. I don't really care what they do, or don't do, in Japan or in a Superboy movie. Both are easy enough to either enjoy or ignore.

It's the way the times are headed. I was surprised that the attractive middle-aged commentators on The Five all said they've stopped open mouth kissing because it's disgusting, their words not mine. The gorgeous Dana Perino said she and her husband hadn't done it for years. I know that growing up in the 50s I never ever saw it. Like I said before, Seinfeld made the point very well. Why is it fine and dandy to stick your tongue down somebody's throat but the thought of using their toothbrush makes you want to barf. It's a glaring double standard. Why is one acceptable and the other is not. I do not want to put something in my mouth that's been in a woman's mouth but I do want to attach my mouth to her mouth and swap tongues? Makes no sense.

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While no dentist is going to recommend sharing a toothbrush, the CDC admits to being "unaware of any adverse health effects directly related to toothbrush use." UK periodontist Eugene Gamble confirms that "the chances of transmitting disease-causing bacteria that wouldn't already be in the mouth are remote." If neither of you have an infectious disease or a compromised immune system, occasional toothbrushing-sharing is unlikely to do any harm. Genet agrees that "the danger factor is minimal since the body has an excellent immune system," adding that, "If it's a choice of brushing or not brushing our teeth, share as long as you know the owner of the toothbrush."

Quote: rxwine

Doesn't matter what the facts are what matters is public perception and that perception is that using somebody else's toothbrush is about the grossest thing you can do. In reality it's no better or no worse theanswapping tongues with somebody but you'll never convince people of that. Again that was the point Seinfeld was making. What's the difference, they're both equally disgusting except we view them differently. I would never take gum from my wife's mouth and chew it myself but I would kiss her on the mouth. Makes no logical sense does it.

Quote: Evenbob

Why is it fine and dandy to stick your tongue down somebody's throat but the thought of using their toothbrush makes you want to barf. It's a glaring double standard. Why is one acceptable and the other is not. I do not want to put something in my mouth that's been in a woman's mouth but I do want to attach my mouth to her mouth and swap tongues? Makes no sense.

I don't regularly share a toothbrush, but there are times when one is forgotten and it does not bother me at all to use hers. Why would it?

Seinfeld is funny and The Five is a show I enjoy (only one I watch regularly these days; I scan MSNBC, CNN, and Fox but they bore me and local news is worthless...I can get my news from other sources much more quickly), but I don't see either of those shows being important takes on oral hygiene.

Quote: Evenbob

Doesn't matter what the facts are what matters is public perception and that perception is that using somebody else's toothbrush is about the grossest thing you can do. In reality it's no better or no worse theanswapping tongues with somebody but you'll never convince people of that. Again that was the point Seinfeld was making. What's the difference, they're both equally disgusting except we view them differently. I would never take gum from my wife's mouth and chew it myself but I would kiss her on the mouth. Makes no logical sense does it.

Grossest. Not really. Eating other people's snot. Try that out. Eat your vomit. Swallow some flem that a smoker coughs up. Stick your nose in a dog's butt.

Here's one.

Eating your wife's placenta
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Q_01oAlIxA

Go watch.

Quote: RonC

Ibut I don't see either of those shows being important takes on oral hygiene.

Gee whiz, maybe that's because they're not. What they are is barometers of the society we live in. Every society has them, every time period has them. Mark my words French kissing as it used to be called will one day be something people don't do anymore. It's a fad, like cigarette smoking was a fad. Go back to the 1950s and tell people there's a time coming when almost nobody's going to be smoking. They would laugh you out of the room.