“But just because we're conditioned to view some things as disgusting and immoral doesn't mean that some things aren't, in actual point of fact, disgusting and immoral. Human sacrifice, for instance. Or cannibalism. Or Ann Coulter.”
Incestathon http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/SavageLove?oid=11500, Savage Love column, The Stranger, 1 August 2002
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