This afternoon, a friend of mine mentioned:
@elfsternberg has been saying this for some time now https://t.co/wJhgEMgQXG
- Garrett Wollman (@garrett_wollman) March 2, 2017
The link leads to an article which surveys the quality of sex being had by all sorts of people and concludes that straight men are simply the least skilled, least considerate, ( Read more... )

Re-reading Sam Brinson's Are We Destined To Fall In Love With Androids?, and my response to it, I noticed a pattern between the stories to which I linked, the ones in which I showed how much the "literature of the future" (which is, in fact, really about the present, and ways to address the present) has addressed the question of "human / cyborg ( Read more... )

Have you ever read a newspaper article in your area of expertise and cringed as the reporter, who's obviously a tourist, gets so much wrong amongst all the factoids he's trying to cover? I had that experience today reading Sam Brinson's recent article Are We Destined To Fall In Love With Androids?Yeah, that. I mean, let's just start with the title ( Read more... )

Emma Lindsay has a long post entitled Porn Makes Men Terrible in Bed, in which she talks about how porn is a terrible teacher of the things women like, that much porn shows women not in physical pleasure but in either a workaday mode or actually disliking what's being filmed. She talks about how the messaging for women is terribly fucked up, and ( Read more... )

So Donald Trump said some horrible things about women today. A couple of my friends suggested that Trump's sexist talk is loud to cover up something deeper; perhaps Trump is secretly gay, one suggested ( Read more... )

Now that I've talked about the non-social causes of sexual orientation in children and teens, and how the right wing is using a well-funded think-tank paper with no peer review and no vetting by third-party social scientists to beat up on queer youth, I actually want to talk about the other issue in Todd Herman's rant. Herman makes a huge deal out ( Read more... )

As an amateur futurologist (no, really!), it often falls to me to compare and contrast the news of the day in order to figure out if what's being said jibes with what I believe is coming in the next twenty years. I expect to live another twenty years, and I expect to be able to talk about whether or not my predictions will come true ( Read more... )

Each year Edge Magazine asks a question and invites the intellectual public to answer it. Eric Weinstein, the director of Thiel Capital, has a fascinating article answering the question, "What is the most interesting recent scientific news?" In Weinstein's case, a fascinating case for a man in charge of a venture capital fund, the news is that ( Read more... )

In order to protect public morals, the State has a valid exercise in police power when discouraging prurient interests in autonomous sex and the pursuit of sexual gratification unrelated to procreation, combating the commercial sale of sex, and protecting minors. Any alleged right associated with obscene devices is not deeply rooted in our Nation's ( Read more... )

In discussing the Time magazine article about porn recently, Professor Denny Burk (Biblical Studies, Boyce College), wrote This article is the latest evidence of our diminishing ability to speak about sex in moral terms. We are at a place in our culture in which sexual morality has been reduced to consent. Our society has embraced total sexual ( Read more... )