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Old Nov 30, 2005 | 10:31 am
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Originally Posted by GBOAC
OK, someone's gotta throw this out there...in these days of supposed equality, isn't that a tad sexist and old-fashioned? What gives your partner more right to be there than you? I can understand offering to swap to be nice or because you may want to treat them or indeed if want to swap, etc. but to [i]insist[/i because it's based purely on them being of the opposite sex therefore they somehow "deserve" or "should" be there instead of you, the man?
Might get even more confusing in same-sex relationships. One would have to be designated as a "lady".
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