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Another bias confirmed!
One other thing from that study about how bad straight guys are at sex: I'm genuinely not surprised that lesbians enjoy anal sex more often that the women partners of straight men ( Read more... ) -
A study finds many straight guys aren't good at sex. I'm not surprised.
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... ) -
The Stories We Tell Ourselves
Recently, I had an interesting conversation with Omaha. In a recent blog post I wrote "I ... believe that consciousness is the story we tell ourselves about ourselves, a way of maintaining a continuity of self in a world of endless stimuli and the epiphenomenal means by which we turn our actions into grist for the decisions we make in the future ( Read more... ) -
I already don't have the energy for empathy
I saw an interesting book the other day which, I confess, I haven't read. It was entitled Against Empathy. I read an interview with the author, Paul Bloom, and one of the things he said was "If I have empathy toward you, it will be painful if you're suffering. It will be exhausting. It will lead me to avoid you and avoid helping. But if I feel ( Read more... ) -
I no longer care what red states want
The other day, as I awakened to another depressing litany of the things the Trump Administration has chosen to inflict on the majority of Americans who live in urban areas that did not vote for him, I had this weird idea. I looked in the mirror and said to myself, "Is this what it felt like in Red America? Is this what people in small town Idaho ( Read more... ) -
There is no line
Someone asked me at a recent meeting of progressive activists if there was a line past which I would get "really serious." I wasn't sure what she meant. I'm serious now ( Read more... ) -
Cinderella, er, "Cendrillon!"
Omaha, Raen and I went out to see Cendrillon, the retelling of the Cinderella story that's currently playing at the Pacific Northwest Ballet. It is straight-up Cinderella, only with some seriously kinky themes thrown in that make it great ( Read more... ) -
Lying is a sin, Denis
This morning, as I was driving back from a dental appointment, I heard Denis Prager on the right wing radio. Nordstroms had announced that it was pulling the Ivanka Trump line of clothing out of its stores. The reason they gave was that sales of the Trump brand had declined 40% since the election, and that it was purely a business decision ( Read more... ) -
Analog Distills
Bill McKibben's homage to analog over digital, Pause! We Can Go Back!, makes an assertion about how everyone's using Moleskin notebooks these days rather than their on-line organizers, and that the miracle of them is that they "concentrate, rather than dissipate ( Read more... ) -
The Automatic Sweetheart Has Her Own Feelings, You Know
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... )