Maggiemcneill

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• Back Issue: November 2011

  

  My gifts and abilities are mine to be used as pleases me; they are not for others to command or control, and only I determine which of them I’m willing to... Read more

  Posted on 24 November 2014 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Links #229

  Cop murders man for no reason at all. (Radley Balko)Stop Grady Judd before he kills again. (Radley Balko)Priorities.(Mistress Matisse) Never call the cops for... Read more

  Posted on 23 November 2014 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• That Was the Week That Was (#447)

  

  This is a moral crusade, dressed up as concern for women. - RCMP Superintendent John FergusonThe Scarlet LetterIn Anaheim, California, anyone convicted of buyin... Read more

  Posted on 22 November 2014 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Welcome to the Future

  

  This essay first appeared in Cliterati on October 26th; I have modified it slightly to fit the format of this blog.As long-time readers know, I’m very fond of... Read more

  Posted on 21 November 2014 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Undeserving

  

  Plead what I will be, not what I have been; Not my deserts, but what I will deserve. - Shakespeare, Richard III (IV,iv)If you’ve been reading me for a while... Read more

  Posted on 20 November 2014 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Sugar Loaves

  

  I’m a 23-year-old professional who wants to pursue a Masters degree in a related field, but my current job alone just won’t pay for tuition on top of my rent,... Read more

  Posted on 19 November 2014 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Diary – Week 229

  

  As I wrote in my diary entry for Chicago, it’s a good thing I’m polyamorously inclined, because now another city has won my affections! But if St. Read more

  Posted on 18 November 2014 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Skewed by Taboo

  

  Eroticism differs from animal sexuality in that human sexuality is limited by taboos and the domain of eroticism is that of the transgression of these taboos. Read more

  Posted on 17 November 2014 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Links #228

  Is this a joke? - Nathan RobinsonThis week I wasn’t on a train and I’m not sick, so I had no trouble getting everything straight on time (except for the abundan... Read more

  Posted on 16 November 2014 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• That Was the Week That Was (#446)

  

  Abolishing prostitution is a complete fantasy, and those deluded by it…sacrifice the lives of real human beings on their altar of sexual purity. Read more

  Posted on 15 November 2014 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Fictional Interlude: The Blessing

  

  Man alone knows that he must die; but that very knowledge raises him, in a sense, above mortality, by making him a sharer in the vision of eternal truth. Read more

  Posted on 14 November 2014 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Diary – Week 228

  

  I wish I could declare that train travel was absolutely wonderful, but I’m afraid I can’t do that. Oh, it was dramatically better for me than plane travel, and... Read more

  Posted on 13 November 2014 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Warped Mirror

  

  I see you so often rail about the imaginary “trafficking” issue. I realize that very few adult sex workers are coerced, and that anti-prostitution laws have... Read more

  Posted on 12 November 2014 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Red Lamp

  

  In this new experience you may find temptations both in wine and women. You must entirely resist both. – Lord KitchenerOne hundred years ago this past June 28th... Read more

  Posted on 11 November 2014 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Guest Columnist: David Ley

  

  Dr. David Ley is a clinical psychologist and author who often writes and speaks about sexuality issues, especially those that others are unwilling to discuss; h... Read more

  Posted on 10 November 2014 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Links #227

  Be careful who you honk at the next time. – Jeremy SweetOnce again, I apologize for letting a “Links” column post in an unfinished state; the reason is the... Read more

  Posted on 09 November 2014 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• That Was the Week That Was (#445)

  

  What is wrong with a contract to sell sexual services between consenting adults who enter voluntarily into the transaction, neither of whom is harmed by the... Read more

  Posted on 08 November 2014 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Gift Horse

  

  This essay first appeared in Cliterati on October 19th; I have modified it slightly for time references and to fit the format of this blog. Read more

  Posted on 07 November 2014 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• The Plural of Anecdote

  

  Whenever an obviously well founded statement is made…by a person specially well acquainted with the facts, that unlucky person is instantly and frantically... Read more

  Posted on 06 November 2014 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• To the Ground

  

  Governments need to be reminded (at least annually if not constantly)…that [their] overthrow…by a disgruntled minority is always a possibility. Read more

  Posted on 05 November 2014 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY