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• Shame, Shame

  

  This essay first appeared in Cliterati on October 13th; I have modified it slightly to fit the format of this blog.While the internet is the greatest... Read more

  Posted on 22 November 2013 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Picture Out of the Past

  

  This is a kind of hybrid column, half Q A and half guest post. A reader sent me the photo below, and wanted to know if I could tell him anything about it (you’l... Read more

  Posted on 21 November 2013 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Suspicious Minds

  

  I’m a widow who’s been in a relationship with a widower for two years; he has a successful business and is very well-off and very good to me, and though... Read more

  Posted on 20 November 2013 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Why I Wait

  

  To avoid doing anything, wait for the right circumstances. - Mason CooleyI’m sure my regular readers have noticed that, though I usually feature news items y’al... Read more

  Posted on 19 November 2013 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Crumbling House

  

  The truth which makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear. - Herbert AgarEven ignoring the immorality of using lies to support... Read more

  Posted on 18 November 2013 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Links #176

  The Blues are not about choice. You stuck in a ditch, you stuck in a ditch; ain’t no way out. - from “How To Sing the Blues”This was a relatively quiet week... Read more

  Posted on 17 November 2013 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• That Was the Week That Was (#346)

  

  The current trafficking panic is fundamentally a modern myth that has been re-created from the “white slavery fears” of the 19th century to further moralist or... Read more

  Posted on 16 November 2013 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Fictional Interlude: The Other Side

  

  The eye sees not itself but by reflection. - William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar (I,ii)I’ve been thinking a great deal about reflections of late. Read more

  Posted on 15 November 2013 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Hwang Jini

  

  Mountains are the same as in the old times, But streams are never the same; They keep flowing day and night, So they can not be the same. The men of fame are... Read more

  Posted on 14 November 2013 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Let Me Help

  

  I have been reading your blog for quite a while now and I have found it very educational and refreshing. However, I have been trying for some time to... Read more

  Posted on 13 November 2013 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Guest Columnist: Brooke Magnanti

  

  Today’s guest columnist probably needs no introduction for most of you; under her stage name Belle de Jour she wrote a well-known blog which turned into books... Read more

  Posted on 12 November 2013 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Remembrance

  

  Four things greater than all things are, – Women and Horses and Power and War. - Rudyard Kipling, “The King’s Jest”Ninety-five years ago today, at eleven o’cloc... Read more

  Posted on 11 November 2013 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Links #175

  This is like something out of a science fiction film, anal probing by government officials and public employees. - Shannon KennedySince there’s almost no such... Read more

  Posted on 10 November 2013 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Innocence Never Had

  

  This essay first appeared in Cliterati on September 29th; I have modified it slightly to fit the format of this blog.I’ve often written about the Cult of the... Read more

  Posted on 08 November 2013 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Traffic Circle

  

  Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth, that around every circle another can be drawn; that there is no end in nature, but every end is a beginning; that... Read more

  Posted on 07 November 2013 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Cleansing Fire

  

  I personally call the type of government which can be removed without violence “democracy”, and the other, “tyranny”. - Karl PopperThe casual reader can be... Read more

  Posted on 05 November 2013 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• We’re Number One!

  

  Thou shalt not covet; but tradition Approves all forms of competition. - Arthur Hugh CloughOne of the most fascinating aspects of “sex trafficking” hysteria is... Read more

  Posted on 04 November 2013 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Links #174

  We’re just here to help you — come out with your hands up. – unnamed Virginia cop, just prior to the addressed party’s murder by another cop This week was a... Read more

  Posted on 03 November 2013 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• That Was the Week That Was (#344)

  

  Lawmakers and judges toss years, even decades, around as though the sentences were Frisbees floating on a leisurely summer breeze. - Norm PattisImaginary Victim... Read more

  Posted on 02 November 2013 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• The Dance of Death

  

  You might be a king or a little street sweeper, But sooner or later you dance with the Reaper. - Bill Ted’s Bogus JourneyToday is the Day of the Dead. Read more

  Posted on 01 November 2013 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY