# Apparently you can't be "orgasmic."

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**Created:** [March 20, 2014, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-you-cant-be-orgasmic/684175 "2014-03-20T19:09:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![Crazyhorse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crazyhorse/32/31_2.png) [@Crazyhorse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crazyhorse)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2014, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-you-cant-be-orgasmic/684175/7 "2014-03-21T01:48:15Z")

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> [@Marley23](#):
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> [It’s been in the Great Debates rules sticky since 2004.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=4749265#post4749265)

Guadere’s law apparently even applied to posts about others’ posting etiquette.

> [@No direct personal insults or "flaming" in great debates](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-direct-personal-insults-or-flaming-in-great-debates/210240/3):
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> Do not say or imply that your fellow posters achieve sexual gratification or soil themselves in glee/distress due to recent news reports, **politcal icongraphy** , contemplation of ideological positions, etc. In fact, if you’re going to discuss someone’s bowels or genitalia at all, it better be DIRECTLY relevant to the debate at hand.
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> I mean, GEEZ. It’s disgusting and adds nothing to the debate, and I am somewhat dismayed I even have to explicitly make a rule against this practice, but what was once a vanishingly rare \*\*occurance \*\*is now getting ickily prevalent.

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