Maggiemcneill

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• Agony Aunt

  

  Honest advice is unpleasant to the ears. - Chinese proverbCultural literacy is a funny thing. We all share a stock of common knowledge which is not directly... Read more

  Posted on 21 August 2013 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Policing for Profit

  

  Legal plunder can be committed in an infinite number of ways. - Frederic BastiatTake a look at the posts tagged “A Broker in Pillage” sometime, and you’ll see... Read more

  Posted on 20 August 2013 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• The Free Speech Mafia

  

  I am now depicted as a former good-guy lawyer, i.e., a “First Amendment lawyer,” who lost his halo, fell in with bad company…and…revealed his lack of wit by... Read more

  Posted on 19 August 2013 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• That Was the Week That Was (#333)

  

  The quick blow job is for [affluent white women’s] husbands…So in your mind it doesn’t affect you, but the wrong mouth on your husband’s dick could affect you. Read more

  Posted on 17 August 2013 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Be Careful Who You Rape

  

  This essay first appeared in Cliterati on July 7th; I have modified it slightly for time references and to fit the format of this blog. Read more

  Posted on 16 August 2013 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Fictional Interlude: X Factor

  

  Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong. Read more

  Posted on 15 August 2013 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Seeking Sappho

  If you are a woman interested in experimenting with woman on woman contact, how does one go about looking for a provider?Really, the process of looking for a... Read more

  Posted on 14 August 2013 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Mumbo Jumbo

  

  Foolishness is indeed the sister of wickedness. - SophoclesIf you haven’t heard about the “teenage exorcists” yet, take a look at this short interview from... Read more

  Posted on 13 August 2013 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Guest Columnist: Kevin Wilson

  

  So far, all of my guest columnists have been female; this month I have the pleasure of presenting my first male guest columnist (other than my husband). Read more

  Posted on 12 August 2013 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Back and Forth

  

  This essay first appeared in Cliterati on June 30th; I have modified it slightly for time references and to fit the format of this blog. Read more

  Posted on 09 August 2013 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Lexicon

  

  There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words. - Thomas ReidIn case it has escaped your notice, I use an awful lot... Read more

  Posted on 08 August 2013 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• I Spy

  

  I have noticed that in the last few years there’ve been an unusually large number of stories about female teachers getting involved with their male students. Read more

  Posted on 07 August 2013 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Race to the Bottom

  

  Here is true immorality: ignorance and stupidity; the devil is nothing but this. His name is Legion. - Gustave FlaubertWill someone who lives in the state of... Read more

  Posted on 06 August 2013 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Cuckoo Advertising

  

  Being fed by us you used us so As that ungentle gull, the cuckoo’s bird, Useth the sparrow. - William Shakespeare, 1 Henry IV (V, i)You’ve got to admire Noel... Read more

  Posted on 05 August 2013 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• That Was the Week That Was (#331)

  

  We only have so many criminal justice dollars, and we need to apply them…toward the areas where we’re afraid of the perpetrators…We’re not afraid of prostitutes... Read more

  Posted on 03 August 2013 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Lais of Corinth

  

  I Lais, once of Greece the pride, For whom so many suitors sigh’d, Now aged grown, at Venus’ shrine The mirror of my youth resign; Since what I am I will not... Read more

  Posted on 02 August 2013 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Lammas 2013

  

  Autumn will heap the granaries high. Whatever you reap, corn, wheat or clover, Barley or rye, when autumn is over… Whatever you reap you will be raising Again... Read more

  Posted on 01 August 2013 SELF EXPRESSION

• Never Let ‘Em See You Sweat

  

  I’m an old-fashioned mature kind of guy who’s open to a relationship in whatever form it may take – platonic, dating, romance, long-term relationships, friends... Read more

  Posted on 31 July 2013 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Back Issue: July 2010

  

  A good story…should make you think about things and feel things and maybe even teach you something in addition to merely entertaining you. Read more

  Posted on 30 July 2013 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Being Heard

  

  We will strive to listen in new ways to the voices of quiet anguish, to voices that speak without words, the voices of the heart, to the injured voices, and... Read more

  Posted on 29 July 2013 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY