Don’t Ruin Pornography for the Rest of Us
In a series of comments on my pornography blogs, one reader makes the point that although porn might not manufacture rapists, “it DOES have a negative impact on the sexual expectations placed upon women” because it makes men think that they can 1. have anal sex with you without extensive foreplay / lubrication or 2. [...]
Stop Masturbating in Public: Castration Fetish as Social Policy, Part I
I ran across this forum on likelike.com, an open survey site that poses questions and lets all comers post responses. The question asked is whether men convicted of sexual assault against a woman or child should be castrated. Some posts seriously consider it as a social policy but the tone and content quickly reveal the [...]
Making Sex Sick: the DSM and the Errors of Psychology
How embarrassing. I posted something yesterday evening on the DSM-V revision where I expressed an opinion based on a complete misread of the DSM text. One of my most alert and intelligent readers, Elmo Iscariot, whose comments you can find in several previous posts, pointed out this misread and I’m quite grateful for it. In [...]
But Why Not?
Samuel Johnson (the 18th-century genius whose dictionary established English as a flexible, living language infinitely open to new and changing words) apparently was hypersexual and liked to be tied up and punished. It’s no surprise that I find this interesting. But not everyone agrees with me. A book reviewer in the Winter, 2009 Wilson Quarterly, [...]
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