Non-Fiction

bemildred

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7. Quite.

Mon Apr 23, 2012, 09:06 AM

Apr 2012

Any women past puberty were pretty much fair game. Used to piss me off (I'm a guy, I like women, but taking advantage of kids is wrong.) And of course, then as now, there were men who hate women and women who were pissed off at men.

Edit: and to be fair, many women and girls at the time were on board with "free love", I'll never forget driving my babysitter (14) home one night, and listening to her discuss with a girlfriend whether it was time for her to screw her older boyfriend or not.

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Quite. bemildred Apr 2012 #7

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