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I lived in NYC for years and saw dicks all the time in public. It is a real problem, and very good reason to shoo away even potential creeps.

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I grew up in NYC, and saw lots of things as a kid, including very mentally unwell people running around naked.

Is it a problem? Yes. It's a problem for them; they were very clearly unwell. Was it a problem for me? I didn't really know how to react as a kid, and more than anything else I remember being sobered rather than traumatized by what I saw. If anything has maladjusted me, I don't think that was it.

No, it isn’t. We aren’t all guilty of perversions because a few guys can’t keep their dicks in their pants. The solution isn’t treating us all like criminals, it’s to get those few perverts psychiatric help.

So the solution is to restrict the lives of kids?

How much damage did that cause? Seeing people's penis, that is. Can you quantify it for us?

How would you expect someone to quantify something like that?

These kind of quality of life things are naturally fuzzy subjective and individual.

It's like claiming that something from 0 to 100 should be treated as 100. Maybe, but maybe it's more correct to treat it as 0, or as 50. But in this case it's a way to to shut down discussion.

Tell me where the damage is. Show who has been hurt by seeing a penis, how they were hurt, and how that impacted them.

This is puritanical shit. Seeing a penis will not hurt you.

> Seeing a penis will not hurt you.

Thank you for making me laugh the hardest i have all week.

I’m still blind in one eye.

I was much more traumatized being forced to attend Sunday school against my will than I was that one day we found a book about sex at the public library. It even had illustrations. That was much more joy than I ever got from Jesus brainwashing school with JOY written all over the walls.

> How much damage did that cause? Seeing people's penis, that is. Can you quantify it for us?

Assume that it does no damage. Even in that best-case scenario, the majority of people will still remove themselves from such an environment.

Can you blame them?

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