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The Pit
We are the Martians now. - Barbara Judd (Barbara Shelley)One of my favorite horror movies is Quatermass and the Pit (1967), released in the United States as Fiv... Read more
Posted on 02 January 2014 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY -
New Year’s Day 2014
Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go. - Brooks AtkinsonChange, as I have written... Read more
Posted on 01 January 2014 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY -
New Year’s Eve 2013
Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty light; The year is dying in the night; Ring out, wild bells, and let him die. Read more
Posted on 31 December 2013 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY -
Back Issue: December 2010
It’s good to know that the Finns are so healthy that University Hospital has nothing more important to do than speculate on the menstrual irregularities of... Read more
Posted on 30 December 2013 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY -
Links #182
A child born today will grow up with no conception of privacy at all. - Edward SnowdenThis is about par for the course for Christmas week; I’m glad we had so... Read more
Posted on 29 December 2013 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY -
That Was the Week That Was (#352)
The violence of a john does not diminish the role of the state in making a prostitute more vulnerable to that violence. – Beverley McLachlin and other justices... Read more
Posted on 28 December 2013 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY -
Catastrophic Consequences
This essay first appeared in Cliterati on October 27th; I have modified it slightly for time references and to fit the format of this blog. Read more
Posted on 27 December 2013 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY -
The Second Day of Christmas
On the second day of Christmas my true love gave to me Two turtle-doves and a partridge in a pear tree. - Traditional Christmas carolWe all learned the... Read more
Posted on 26 December 2013 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY -
Christmas Day
will always be, just as long as we have we. - Dr. SeussIn “Visions of Sugarplums” I imagined a Christmas centuries in the future, and that’s probably the... Read more
Posted on 25 December 2013 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY -
Christmas Eve 2013
Commercialization and culture wars can only steal your Christmas if you let them. - Maggie McNeillI’ve written on a number of occasions how important rituals ar... Read more
Posted on 24 December 2013 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY -
A Song for the Season
A song, a song, high above the trees With a voice as big as the sea. - Noël RegneyMy friend Terry majored in music and also adored comedy, so it should come as... Read more
Posted on 23 December 2013 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY -
Links #181
It was anticlimactic and boring until the cops overreacted. - Stefan WarnerThough there were some big stories in sex news this week, it’s always a bit quieter o... Read more
Posted on 22 December 2013 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY -
Yule 2013
Have you ever noticed a tree standing naked against the sky, How beautiful it is? All its branches are outlined, and in its nakedness There is a poem, there is ... Read more
Posted on 21 December 2013 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY -
That Was the Week That Was (#351)
I am writing this on my phone, for the living and the dead. - JemimaRough Trade A man who raped a prostitute…has been jailed for [forty] months. Read more
Posted on 20 December 2013 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY -
Klondike Kate
I wouldn’t have known what I know now if I hadn’t lived the way I have. - Kathleen RockwellThough there have always been women who made a career of directly... Read more
Posted on 19 December 2013 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY -
Honoring Our Dead
I know who held the knife, but they might as well have put it in his hands. - the mother of murdered sex worker Petite JasmineSeveral days a year sex workers an... Read more
Posted on 17 December 2013 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY -
Fictional Interlude: The Reason for the Season
There’s nothing constant in the world, All ebb and flow, and every shape that’s born Bears in its womb the seeds of change. - Ovid, Metamorphoses (XV,... Read more
Posted on 16 December 2013 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY -
Links #180
Oh, you’re gonna shoot me? - Robert Redus, last wordsBehold the power of prior planning: despite being in New Orleans since Wednesday and having a horrible... Read more
Posted on 15 December 2013 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY -
That Was the Week That Was (#350)
In reality, what’s degrading is not sex work itself, but the language [prohibitionists use] to describe it. - Joyce ArthurThe Red Umbrella This coming Tuesday i... Read more
Posted on 14 December 2013 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY -
Still Another Friday the Thirteenth
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as... Read more
Posted on 13 December 2013 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY