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  • This House Would choose the sexual album over the introspective album

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    You are an American singer and actress in your early twenties. You gained widespread recognition as a teenager through your role on a popular Disney Channel series. Since then, you’ve released several albums that delve into themes of love, self-discovery, and personal growth, achieving moderate success. As you prepare for your next album, your label has presented you with two options: Album A (the sexual album), which focuses on explicit displays of sexuality, and Album B (the introspective album), which continues the introspective themes you’ve explored in your previous works.

    PKU Pro-Am 2025 · Round 1 · 2025-08-09

  • This House Prefers a World where the LGBTQ+ movement pursued the liberationist approach rather than the assimilationist approach.

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    Since the 1990s, the assimilationist approach to LGBTQ+ advocacy emphasised that queer identity and relationships are "just like" their heterosexual counterparts, and that therefore LGBTQ+ people should have access to existing social institutions such as marriage and family life. The liberationist approach to LGBTQ+ advocacy would have argued that these institutions are inherently restrictive and should not be central to a person's life.

    Copenhagen European Universities Debating Championships 2025 · Round 7 · 2025-08-03

  • This house believes that the intellectualization of romance does more harm than good

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    The intellectualization of romance refers to the tendency to rationalize romantic interest or relationships as opposed to attempting to face emotional vulnerability or express emotions authentically. Instances of this include gamifying interactions with your love interest, deliberately avoiding communicating emotions in the fear that it appears like a "concession," or overly analyzing trivial interactions in search of positive signaling. Examples of media that depict the intellectualization of romance include Kaguya-Sama: Love is War and the Love Hypothesis, franchises that emphasize logical reasoning in the face of emotional vulnerability as opposed to acknowledging the scope or intensity of one’s feelings.

    Hart House Women and Gender Minorities Debating Tournament 2025 · Junior Finals · 2025-08-02

  • This house regrets the villification of hopeless romanticism

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    Hopeless romanticism refers to an idealistic, eternal, and fairy-tail like view of love. Hopeless romantics focus on the positive aspects even in the face of experiencing red-flags in a partner and other romantic struggles.

    North Luzon Invitational Debates 2025 · Round 3 · 2025-07-19

  • This house believes that that queer hypersexuality does more harm than good to the LGBTQ+ community

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    For the purposes of the debate, 'queer hypersexuality' refers to excessive sexual behaviors experienced by individuals identifying as LGBTQ+. Examples include frequent sexual encounters with other members of the community, the popularity of sexual events, or self-sexualisation.

    16th Visayas-Mindanao Debate Championship · Round 5 · 2025-07-18

  • This House Opposes the gamification of romantic love in Pop Culture

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    Gamification of love is the popularisation of reality TV shows that depict romantic love as competitions or experiments.

    North-West Pre-SAUDC · Round 2 · 2025-07-06

  • This house, as the feminist movement, regrets mail-order brides.

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    A mail-order bride is a woman who seeks a marriage partner through a service or agency that arranges international marriages, typically involving men from wealthier countries who are seeking partners from countries with fewer economic opportunities, most commonly Southeast Asia, Eastern Europe and Latin America. The term often implies that the process is transactional, where the woman may be selected or matched based on personal preferences, sometimes facilitated through correspondence or online.

    North-West Pre-SAUDC · Round 3 · 2025-07-06

  • This house, as a heterosexual, highly educated woman, would choose to enter a 'weekend marriage'

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    "Weekend marriages" are marriages in which couples live apart at separate residences for a majority of their relationship. They maintain other aspects of a traditional marriage, including but not limited to sharing childcare responsibilities and financial obligations to each other. For the purposes of this debate, assume both individuals are willing participants in the 'marriage'.

    Auckland IV 2024 · Round 2 · 2025-07-05

  • This House, as the principled person, will estrange themself from the best friend

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    You are a principled person who prioritizes truthfulness, reliability and faithfulness in your actions and relationships. One day, you find out that your best friend is cheating on his partner.

    5th Mindanao Novice Cup · High School Finals · 2025-07-05

  • This House prefers a world in which humans reproduced externally

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    Humans reproduce internally, through the act of sex. For the purposes of this debate, external reproduction involves organisms releasing gametes into the environment, which randomly combine. This process produces thousands of embryos, of which a small proportion mature into babies. In this world, babies are still adopted and cared for by parents. Organisms that reproduce externally cannot also reproduce internally.

    UNSW IV · Round 5 · 2025-07-05