Creation Controversy
The British have made a film Creation about one of their greatest sons, Charles Darwin, a film that’s failed to get an American distributor because of our country’s general hostility to evolution. (Only 39% of Americans believe in it.) A friend, Jen Kirkman, commenting about the controversy on Facebook, wrote, “I never understood why religion [...]
Stop Masturbating in Public:Harmful to Minors
It is deeply, morally important to be a sexually competent human being if you also plan on being a good human being, because those who do not competently express their sexual desires are doomed to masturbate in public. There’s a contest at the end of this blog. You get a T-shirt if you win. For [...]
Questions Your Children Ask Me:Is that why sex hurts?
I volunteer at Los Angeles-area public schools teaching sex ed to 9th graders. At the end of every class, I hand out index cards to the kids and they write down questions they don’t want to ask out loud. These are your kid’s questions. These are my answers. This question got thrown to me out [...]
Pornography: Part IIExperimental Nonsense
In Pornography: Part I, I laid out my own relationship with sexually explicit material, so you’d know exactly where I’m coming from. Now I’ll go into some of my other thoughts. I laughed the first time I read the design of the most common experiment used to promote the idea that porn causes or contributes [...]
Sex Positive: An Epitaph?
“Safe sex came from activists, porn stars, sex workers and their community driven efforts.” This quote comes from the webpage of a documentary I just Netflixed, or put on my Netflix® queue (out of respect for their trademark), called Sex Positive, about Richard Berkowitz, a S/M-huslter turned AIDS-activist who was one of the inventors and [...]
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