Sweet Chastity --- Thank-you so much for your thoughtful analysis. I tend to agree with you on your careful distinctions, and on the reasoning behind them.

Let me also say that I don't believe that anything I am engaged in at Pixies' (whether it be serious sharing of opinions, light-hearted sexual banter, posting/viewing pictures, or reading stories) is harmful to me, nor do I believe that I am hurting anyone else in the process. In fact, I have made some very dear friends here and we have been able to help each other through some very difficult times; through them I feel that I have become a better person. I am agnostic and do not particularly believe in 'sin' as defined in any holy book, but I do feel that on a very basic level sins are those voluntary actions and/or thoughts that are hurtful to the self or to others --- and by that definition, I don't feel that I'm sinning here at all.

--- sweetstuff

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