AGA Roll Call: Problems with PDA?

I love PDA. Granted, if you're sitting in a room with two of your friends who just won't stop making out, it's rude. But stepping out on a liberal leftist limb for a second, twinged with the 60's flavored free-love agenda, what is so offensive about two people expressing themselves? I'm not discussing public sex, I'm discussing anything up to and including first base and/or a little over the clothes groping.

In the earlier part of the century, women who smoked in public were women of ill repute. Granted, smoking is bad for you, but I'm sure the thought that goes through a lot of minds is "What kind of a girl lets herself be touched in public?" A girl who is equal to her male counterpart. I was delighted to hear a male friend complain that PDA meant that a guy was whipped, because it finally acknowledges a simple truth: women (gasp shock horror) have sexual desire equal to that of men.

Age is everything, I think, in this discussion. Recall your first boyfriend back in middle school. Let me paint the picture, and see if it resonates with you: Kissing in a dark room, in a hallway, at the top of the slide...with a half-dozen people looking on, uncomfortably close and giving all-too-audible commentary on your technique.
"Gosh, it's been like two whole minutes."
"Seriously, guys, the bell's about to ring..."
Similarly, let me describe the phase that all freshmen attending school in NYC go through: at one point or another, you end up falling-down drunk in some club from free drinks given to you by some Gropey McGrope.

With the oversexed social atmosphere that America's, and really the world's, young people are thrust into, it's hard to find one's own happy middle ground, a place where comfort and readiness balance out the dismembered women (and increasingly men too) trying to sell us perfume and alcohol among other things. Is it any surprise that public displays of affection are so varied and audacious when "former feminist" Nelly Furtado's latest hit focuses the promiscuity of herself and the guy she's attracted?

PDA, in the general usage, is something above and beyond public decency, which makes it a very subjective matter. While some may find mouth kissing too much, others may be more offended by putting a hand in a significant other's pocket. And what happens when the PDA is committed by those in a same-sex couple? Do the rules change? And if they do, I hope there's a good reason--scratch that, I hope the speaker has a legitimate excuse; and no, "I don't wanna see no f*****s kissin'" does not qualify.