Is "Unmolested" the new term for non-manipulation?

[sterlingcomics]

I'm noticing in more and more posts and on consignment shops I am seeing the word "unmolested" as a term to describe a comic collectible that has not been pressed or otherwise tampered.

 

Do we really need such a negative term to describe something positive? I know I don't hang out here like I used to but gesh.

 

Discuss amongst yourselves.

[DiceX]

That would definitely make me "molested".

 

 

[Flaming_Telepath]

I'm noticing in more and more posts and on consignment shops I am seeing the word "unmolested" as a term to describe a collectible that has not been pressed or otherwise tampered.

 

Do we really need such a negative term to describe something positive? I know I don't hang out here like I used to but gesh.

 

Discuss amongst yourselves.

 

I prefer 'virgin'.

[Dale Roberts]

I prefer the term "soon to be smashed"

[goldust40]

I'm noticing in more and more posts and on consignment shops I am seeing the word "unmolested" as a term to describe a comic collectible that has not been pressed or otherwise tampered.

 

Do we really need such a negative term to describe something positive? I know I don't hang out here like I used to but gesh.

 

Discuss amongst yourselves.

 

It's not negative enough....the term should be "uncontaminated".

[VintageComics]

I'm noticing in more and more posts and on consignment shops I am seeing the word "unmolested" as a term to describe a collectible that has not been pressed or otherwise tampered.

 

Do we really need such a negative term to describe something positive? I know I don't hang out here like I used to but gesh.

 

Discuss amongst yourselves.

 

I prefer 'virgin'.

 

Virgin is probably a good word.

 

(thumbs u

[joeypost]

If a book has been "open and read", it is no longer virgin.

[Old Fashion PB and J]

I'm noticing in more and more posts and on consignment shops I am seeing the word "unmolested" as a term to describe a collectible that has not been pressed or otherwise tampered.

 

Do we really need such a negative term to describe something positive? I know I don't hang out here like I used to but gesh.

 

Discuss amongst yourselves.

 

I prefer 'virgin'.

 

Virgin is probably a good word.

 

(thumbs u

Unmolested has a nice ring. Not pressed by greedy bastids is another. But hey I press books..

 

For what its worth I prefer "virgin" books as well.

[Old Fashion PB and J]

If a book has been "open and read", it is no longer virgin.

 

People read comics :o

[VintageComics]

I'm noticing in more and more posts and on consignment shops I am seeing the word "unmolested" as a term to describe a collectible that has not been pressed or otherwise tampered.

 

Do we really need such a negative term to describe something positive? I know I don't hang out here like I used to but gesh.

 

Discuss amongst yourselves.

 

I prefer 'virgin'.

 

Virgin is probably a good word.

 

(thumbs u

Unmolested has a nice ring. Not pressed by greedy bastids is another. But hey I press books..

 

For what its worth I prefer "virgin" books as well.

 

It's a common term used for food, wool, etc.

[VintageComics]

If a book has been "open and read", it is no longer virgin.

 

Depends on what people want to associate with the word virgin.

 

For people it's one thing.

For wool it's another.

For olive oil it's again something completely different.

For comics....I guess it will be whatever people accept as a majority.

[fantastic_four]

If a book has been "open and read", it is no longer virgin.

 

People read comics :o

 

Some of us do more than just read them.

[Flaming_Telepath]

If a book has been "open and read", it is no longer virgin.

 

Careful, Joey, your agenda's showing.

[Marvelfangirl]

That would definitely make me "molested".

 

DiceX,I can't help but laugh at your sig :roflmao: :roflmao:

 

But to answer the question,I like "virgin" or "unpressed"

[joeypost]

If a book has been "open and read", it is no longer virgin.

 

Careful, Joey, your agenda's showing.

 

By the time a book gets to the "pressed" stage it falls under the tramp or whore category.

 

Maybe it's time for another PSA

[Dale Roberts]

non potentialized

[namisgr]

If a book has been "open and read", it is no longer virgin.

 

Careful, Joey, your agenda's showing.

 

Yeah, after I started referring to books bought off the rack as "unmanipulated", I heard back that it wasn't so if they'd ever been opened.

 

Much easier to say and write "unmanipulated" than "never restored, trimmed, cleaned, spot-pressed, or squished-into-a-pancake-pressed". However, if the consensus is that the former is unclear...

[fantastic_four]

If a book has been "open and read", it is no longer virgin.

 

Careful, Joey, your agenda's showing.

 

In personifying the reading of a comic versus the pressing a comic, reading seems like a closer comparison to sex than pressing--pressing seems more akin to plastic surgery or some other kind of beautifying procedure.

[Flaming_Telepath]

Actually, if a book hasn't been pressed, what about 'unrestored'?

[fantastic_four]

Actually, if a book hasn't been pressed, what about 'unrestored'?

 

That works for me...but does a neutral term like "unrestored" really communicate the right amount of moral outrage?