Tag: Sex
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Why sex must always be sacred
Sex must be sacred because it is a psychological necessity that it be so. The proliferation of ritual, religious significance, taboos, ideals, legends, and art across the entire world that focus on sex is an inescapable universal phenomenon. We cannot help but turn sex into a temple, a god, a ritual, an idol. It is…
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Would men care about women without sex?
One thing I sometimes wonder is, what percentage of the love, attention, and respect that men show women is due to their sexual attraction to them? I’m willing to bet that it’s a lot. Looking at how men act toward men, there’s a lot of competition. There’s not a huge amount of personal interest. Men…
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What makes sexual alternatives attractive?
I’ve been rolling a lot of ideas around in my head for a long time, trying to figure out what it is that’s attractive about numerous aspects of sexuality. Specifically, pornography, prostitutes, and certain aspects of other alternative sexual cultures. One huge problem with almost everything everyone has to say about sex is that they…
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On misogyny and child marriage
That was a great article bringing attention to the work of that doctor. It sounds like she did a lot of great at work helping women. And this is purely a comment about what’s most helpful in diagnosing and fixing problems. I’m not sure it’s enough to label child marriage as misogyny. The cause of…
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Me too?
I never realized until today how much I hate the “stop hitting yourself” game. Apparently so much that I forbid my children from playing it. My daughter must have learned it at school. And it brought up a surprising amount of resentment and hatred in me. Generally speaking, I don’t find fun in any type…
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Way way way too much, on the subject of why I care about swimsuits
I was curious to study my own behavior and answer: “Why go to the effort of buying swimsuits for my wife?” In an objective sense, it’s completely unnecessary and unimportant. So why even expend the effort? Well, I think it must just be one of those things that, while not really important in any sense,…
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Warning, spicy meatball: in defense of oral sex
Spicy meatball warning!!! Explicit content. I just can’t be bothered with innuendo or euphemisms, so I’m just going to be radically explicit. This is actually a heavily edited version of the original. So if you’re easily shocked, imagine the first draft. The rest of the world is shoving a cheap and shallow, explicit version of…
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Why are men obvious and women opaque?
There is a small matter that works at my thoughts, demanding attention. Obviously, the way we approach our need for one another can and has resulted in some terrible abuses. Because it’s such a powerful fundamental aspect of our identities, because it’s so tied to our life and survival as a species, its a pretty…
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How should we regulate sex?
It’s a difficult subject to tackle, how we should approach sex. Sex, both as an identity and as as an activity, I mean. Yes, societies have done various things throughout history, but generally they’ve let instinct and necessity dictate the terms. And on the side, once they’ve paid tribute to what need to be done…
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What is romance?
Friendship is the enjoyment of lives lived in parallel. Romance is the desire to unite your story with someone else’s. We enjoy drama and excitement and a sense of occasion in that unity, we want it to have a sense of occasion. There’s a delight in the ritual and in performing the rites of significance.…