When I started playing go I played the 3-5 all the time and it still is my favorite opening.
When I started go a few years ago, I played a game where my opponent approached at the 4-4 against the 3-5, I answered something like the 3-3 and later lost the game. I then took it to have it reveiwed and I had it reveiwed by someone that trained under or with Takeshi Sakai. Takeshi Sakai use to administer a go server that was hosted in japan a few years ago and some of the people that studied with or under him would often play on it, it was here that I was lucky to have my game reveiwed.
The focus of his reveiw was on the 4-4 approach and on how to properly punish it and that it was a mistake to begin with.
He said with out hesitation black should immediately play the 3-5 on the other side no thought about it just play it unless it is closer to mid game and if there are other white stones along the sides or in the area to be support, and then he went about a few variations saying that black can easily get away with both sides, the corner and a side, or some other odd variations and that unless black did something increasingly stupid the result is in most cases are in favor of black.
I asked about answering at a contact play of either A or B.
I was told that A turns into Avalanche and B dosent punish it lets white off.
Now some what recently I got into a heated debate with someone about how to answer it. Trying to be polite and open minded about it I was quite rudely told that I should go read some joseki books, look at josekipedia, or some countless other things.
So out of curiosity I looked through some and most or all state that to punish play B from above.
So I want to ask what are you people in favor of, what are your thoughts on it in this position do you have any variations of why or why not ect ect..
is not intimidating at all. This is kind of like a hamete shown in Lee Changho's book on hamete:
before Black tries to shut it off with 
. The best way to handle this for White is shown in the book to be: 
is not good:
that matters, it all boils down to the plain and simple fact that Black has to handle 2 groups while you only have to handle 1. Any variation that exploits this will be advantageous. 
is still the same - ensuring separation.