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• Friday the Thirteenth Again

  

  In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. - Martin Luther King, Jr.Today is the first Friday the 13th in... Read more

  Posted on 13 September 2013 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• The Kisaeng

  

  Oh that I might capture the essence of this deep midwinter night And fold it softly into the waft of a spring-moon quilt, Then fondly uncoil it the night my... Read more

  Posted on 12 September 2013 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Convolution

  

  There’s a woman who often comes into my workplace. She has let me know she’s very interested and I think she’s gorgeous. However, I know she’s hesitant to do... Read more

  Posted on 11 September 2013 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Building a Current

  

  Each time a man stands up for an ideal…or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different... Read more

  Posted on 10 September 2013 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Links #166

  If you wake at night and see her, her clothes be blowing back, even in a room where there is no wind. And you know she’s marked you for killing. Read more

  Posted on 08 September 2013 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• That Was the Week That Was (#336)

  

  The Swedish model, in its mission to eradicate sex work, is by definition an unapologetic mission to eradicate sex workers. - NineA War for Peace…a new... Read more

  Posted on 07 September 2013 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Buttons, Bags & Banknotes

  

  This essay first appeared in Cliterati on August 4th; I have modified it slightly to fit the format of this blog.Second-wave feminism in the UK has, like the... Read more

  Posted on 06 September 2013 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Utopia

  

  Recently I clicked on a link which I thought would lead me to an article about human sexuality, but when it opened my eyes were bombarded with very explicit... Read more

  Posted on 04 September 2013 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Fever Dream

  

  Fanaticism is to superstition what delirium is to fever. - VoltaireAs I’ve pointed out many times, moral panics do not gradually increase in intensity and then... Read more

  Posted on 03 September 2013 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Denunciation

  

  It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone’s fault. If it was us,... Read more

  Posted on 02 September 2013 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Links #165

  There’s a certain color someone uses that I won’t mention that tells me someone’s been demonized. Everything that I talk about is based on numbers, is based on... Read more

  Posted on 01 September 2013 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• That Was the Week That Was (#335)

  

  The Olympics are always a chance for hosts to do some moral cleansing, and drive away undesirables by brute force. - Scott LongLying Down With Dogs“The lawyer o... Read more

  Posted on 31 August 2013 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Opting Out

  

  This essay first appeared in Cliterati on July 28th; I have modified it slightly for time references and to fit the format of this blog. Read more

  Posted on 30 August 2013 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Back Issue: August 2010

  

  Let’s start getting the word out that whores are no different from other women, and that “a woman’s right to choose what to do with her own body” is more than... Read more

  Posted on 29 August 2013 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Surprise!

  

  I recently went to get a body rub, and was only looking for the typical “happy ending” because I’m married and worried about STDs; however, when the hour was... Read more

  Posted on 28 August 2013 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Extra Edition

  

  Morality cannot be determined by genitals. - MasruchahHere We Go Again “The Inside of the White Slave Traffic”, from 1913.  Enjoy, and marvel at how little the... Read more

  Posted on 27 August 2013 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Better Left Alone

  

  Since long I’ve held silence a remedy for harm. - Aeschylus, AgamemnonSome of you have asked for my take on the Hugo Schwyzer meltdown; others have (perhaps mor... Read more

  Posted on 26 August 2013 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• That Was the Week That Was (#334)

  

  All prostitution laws are conceived as methods to control women who, before ideas of victimhood took hold, were understood to be powerful, dangerous figures... Read more

  Posted on 24 August 2013 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Spoiled Children

  

  This essay first appeared in Cliterati on July 21st; I have modified it slightly to fit the format of this blog.People, as the Doors song says, are strange. Read more

  Posted on 23 August 2013 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• The Privilege Paradigm

  

  The war on privilege will never end. Its next great campaign will be against the privileges of the underprivileged. - H.L. MenckenI finally figured out exactly... Read more

  Posted on 22 August 2013 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY