The Sleepery Slope

This just in from Canada, long a bastion of rock ribbed morality and idiot liberalism.

Group sex club patrons swinging free

MONTREAL (Reuters) - On a recent night out on the town, Michel and Chantal Delbecchi left their suburban Montreal home and drove to the L'Orage Club in the city's east end, where they had sex with a couple they had never met before.

The Delbecchis, husband and wife since 1978, are "echangistes," French for "swingers," who for the past 21 years have been visiting clubs like L'Orage (Thunderstorm) to have consensual sex in a group with one or more other people.

For future outings, they will no longer have to fear police will raid the club and arrest them for being in a "bawdy house," a place where prostitution or acts of public indecency take place.

In a landmark decision on Dec, 21, the Supreme Court of Canada lifted a ban on swingers' clubs, ruling that group sex among consenting adults is neither
prostitution nor a threat to society.

The ruling sparked outrage, largely in English-speaking parts of Canada, where critics said it would erode limits on indecency or obscenity, encourage prostitution and even contribute to the corruption of minors.

Seeing as the age of consent in Canada is currently hovering at a nasty fourteen, concern for minors doesn't seem misplaced to me. I try to keep that salient fact in mind every time a canuck starts to wax moral about how horrible the states are, a choice topic in the great frozen tundra.

Let me just state the obvious for those who haven't enjoyed a refreshing caffeinated beverage yet. Public morality isn't supposed to be easy. The argument always goes like this (imagine a high whining voice, like Sandra Bernhardt on helium).

"But everybodies doing it, and I wanna too, you can't stop everybody so just throw in the towel and make it legal. Your kids already doin' it so why bother, you can't legislate morality and anyway...I really wanna!"

Let's examine this steaming pile. Of course this should be illegal. My take is you should be able to do whatever you want as a consenting adult in the privacy of your own home, but when you make stuff like this publicly legal it has consequences to the community.

The state actually does have an interest in at least attempting to keep sexual relationships geared toward procreation. The "sexual revolution" has caused more pain and broken lives than any other social experiment with the notable exception of abortion. People in committed relationships are happier and live longer.

As for Michel and Chantal, a 25-year-old woman has become their mutual lover and all three plan to move in together early next year. Despite that new relationship, the Delbecchis expect to continue exchanging sex partners in Quebec clubs.

Said Michel: "At the club, we have sex with people. At home, we make love."

Yeah, that's gonna end well.

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