The basic idea was that Earth was so overpopulated that pickpocketing was legal (mostly because there was too much of it to be feasible to prosecute). So Beowulf Schaeffer asks his girlfriend if he can steal her coin purse. And she says only if he can hide it on his body. And they're both naked at the time. So he puts it in his mouth as a joke. And then they carry on making love.
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Date: 2022-06-17 03:39 am (UTC)The basic idea was that Earth was so overpopulated that pickpocketing was legal (mostly because there was too much of it to be feasible to prosecute). So Beowulf Schaeffer asks his girlfriend if he can steal her coin purse. And she says only if he can hide it on his body. And they're both naked at the time. So he puts it in his mouth as a joke. And then they carry on making love.