Maggiemcneill

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• Still More Mentoring

  

  There are some questions that shouldn’t be asked until a person is mature enough to appreciate the answers. - Anne BishopI generally answer questions via... Read more

  Posted on 20 December 2012 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Sugar, Sugar

  

  Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife. - Samuel RichardsonA complex reader question which needed a complex... Read more

  Posted on 19 December 2012 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Fictional Interlude: Visions of Sugarplums

  

  They err who thinks Santa Claus comes down through the chimney; he really enters through the heart. – Mrs. Paul M. EllIt all started when I got a call from my... Read more

  Posted on 18 December 2012 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• End Violence, Not Demand

  

  For people who are still being exploited in prostitution…negative effects of the [sex purchase] ban…must be viewed as positive from the perspective that the... Read more

  Posted on 17 December 2012 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Just Friends

  

  No man can be friends with a woman he finds attractive. He always wants to have sex with her. - Harry Burns (Billy Crystal) in When Harry Met SallyIn “Ice... Read more

  Posted on 14 December 2012 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• If

  

  Of course, if we had an index file we could look it up in the index file under “index file”.  -  Tegan Jovanka (Janet Fielding) in “Castrovalva” When I was a we... Read more

  Posted on 13 December 2012 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Any Old Port

  

  in a storm.  -  English proverb The belief that people can become “addicted” to things that do not produce chemical dependency (food, sex, the internet, etc)... Read more

  Posted on 12 December 2012 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Uncharted Seas

  

  Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.  -  Thomas Henry Huxley One of the great paradoxes of human behavior is that... Read more

  Posted on 11 December 2012 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Like a Horse and Carriage

  

  Love and marriage, love and marriage, Go together like a horse and carriage.  -  Sammy Cahn I finally figured out what it is about gay marriage rhetoric that... Read more

  Posted on 10 December 2012 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• That Was the Week That Was (#49)

  

  I don’t want to teach ESL.  I don’t want to work in food service.  I would rather sell sex.  -  Melissa Petro License To Rape A woman…coerced into oral sex by... Read more

  Posted on 08 December 2012 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• On the Simultaneous Having and Eating of Cake

  

  The evil are guilty, and create Law. The good are innocent, and create Justice.  -  Terry Pratchett Religions and legal regimes insist that the way to make... Read more

  Posted on 07 December 2012 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• The Trafficking of Santa

  

  When you grow up you realize that there isn’t really any Santa but the monsters are still around.  -  Anna Quindlen Every year on Saint Nicholas’ Day I publish ... Read more

  Posted on 06 December 2012 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Conflation Creates Criminality

  

  Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.  -  Karl Kraus Criticism is distinguished from insult by its intent; the... Read more

  Posted on 05 December 2012 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Accredited Whores

  

  Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.  -  Gertrude Stein A whore is any woman who gets money for sexual contact with someone.  It doesn’t matter what kind of sex... Read more

  Posted on 04 December 2012 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Buried Truth

  

  The buried truth germinates and breaks through to the light.  -  George Bernard Shaw I’ve written on a number of occasions about reaction formation, the... Read more

  Posted on 03 December 2012 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Money Changes Everything

  We think we know what we’re doin’ We don’t pull the strings It’s all in the past now Money changes everything.  -  Tom Gray, “Money Changes Everything” One... Read more

  Posted on 30 November 2012 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Calamity Jane

  

  I lifted him onto my horse in front of me and succeeded in getting him safely to the Fort.  Capt. Egan on recovering, laughingly said:  “I name you Calamity... Read more

  Posted on 29 November 2012 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Q & A (November 2012)

  Any man who knows all the answers most likely misunderstood the questions.  -  Nancy Willard Please email maggiemcneill@earthlink. Read more

  Posted on 28 November 2012 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• The Source

  When drinking water, think of its source.  –  Chinese proverb For the past two years on this day, I’ve published examinations of the myth that the average age a... Read more

  Posted on 27 November 2012 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY