I appreciate you writing this up. It’s valuable input into the ongoing discussion.
To add some more context may I ask in what country this “boardgame club” was? (Taking into account the effect of different norms in different countries/cultures is somewhat important piece of information for me personally.)
Also if it does not de-anonymise it—was it mostly an university / youth group or not?
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I’ve felt quite saddened and distressed by this post. I deeply agree that it is right and beneficial to be more careful, restrained and generally err on the side of caution in romancing/dating, when there are work or power imbalance considerations.
But at the same time (in section “What I mean by sleeping around”), this post presents views that are in line with contemporary mainstream norms of sex-negativity and soft poliphobia . To quote the post itself:
We obviously don’t want to simply unquestionably accept all of society’s norms [footnote: Historic stigmatisation of LGBT people and relationships is one example of why not]
And I think presenting romancing/sex as something negative or potentially negative, unless it happens in a monogamous and serious relationship (or in setting intentioned for leading to one) is unfortunately similar way of stigmatisation.
Fixed, thank you :)
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