So, this chick said that for $20 she'd...
More like the are all deviations of social norms, so it doesn't matter the extremes that they may be they are all on the side of deviant behavior, while some maybe down right horrible, they still fit in the same category of deviant, now if you want to qualify the deviation then that's fine but that doesn't invalidate my point. So just because you don't like the fact that some things can be grouped together it doesn't make it wrong. So good luck with that.
Social norms - "the rules that a group uses for appropriate and inappropriate values, beliefs, attitudes and behaviors."
Depending on the location, culture, or even a group of friends that you mingle with define new and different social norms. Even with that being said, what goes on behind closed doors seems to be an anything goes grab bag of events. Hell, get yourself in the right spiritual circle and murder could be considered a social norm.
In other words: there is no normal, it's all shades of gray painted on the side of a rolling stone. What you really should have stated was that her actions deviate from YOUR perspective on what's normal.[/QUOTE]
So the definition of normal varies between micro and macro scales? Thats fine I never was arguing that, but lets use this forum as the group, and I would even say sex parties is out of the norm for most of us, so I fail to see how its not deviant behavior when its put in the context of halforum members.[/QUOTE]Speak for yourself, instead of generalising for an entire forum?
I myself have had no problems with sex parties, and even have participated in a few in different countries. Like K of J said, her actions deviate from
YOUR perspective on what's normal.