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This is a bit outside my wheelhouse, since I haven’t exactly been a follower of Christianity in any sense for nearly 60 years now, but this preview of an explosive new book by one of the former icons of Conservative Christianity is almost certain to...
by Irontortoise
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on Tue Apr 09, 2024 at 01:30 AM PDT
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Three levels to an answer: complications arising from our being mammals; complications arising from our being the cultural animal, i.e. human; complications arising from our taking “the Fateful Step” into civilization. Check out “The Sacred Space of...
by AndySchmookler
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on Sun Mar 17, 2024 at 07:59 AM PDT
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In a story near and dear to my heart as a school librarian directly affected by said law, I am pleased to report that federal judge Stephen Locher has blocked major portions of Iowa’s book banning law that was passed earlier this year and was scheduled...
by Witgren
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on Sat Dec 30, 2023 at 02:37 PM PST
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Anyone attentive to our society in our times, or familiar with various historical cultures, should know that human sexuality – in addition to all the good it brings into people’s lives – has been beset by social tensions, cultural taboos, and personal...
by AndySchmookler
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on Sat Feb 25, 2023 at 08:48 AM PST
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has made headlines again for another failed attempt at trying to gain popularity. After being mocked for comparing wearing a mask to wearing underwear on Twitter, the Georgia congresswoman attempted to hold an anti-trans...
by Aysha Qamar
87 comments
on Fri Jan 13, 2023 at 10:35 AM PST
with 212 Recommends
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This is a purely personal essay. It is quite long. There is also some sexual language and discussion that may make some readers highly uncomfortable and might even be triggering. My first day of Residency the Chief of Obstetrics and Gynecology stepped...
by Nonlinear
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on Sat Aug 13, 2022 at 10:22 PM PDT
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I've been well and ill, happy and sad, "rich" and poor but I've never been a woman. I'm not being post-neo-snarky. I feel my being as a man, body and soul, as "of me" and have difficulty holding that at arms length to consider it abstractly. I can do...
by LapDog
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on Fri Jul 01, 2022 at 11:57 PM PDT
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Why is it so easy for humans to psychologically wash their hands of another person, or group of people? How do they make themselves approving (in terms of attitude) of their behavior? This is an active process. And, then, what is fairness? We all have...
by novapsyche
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on Sat Jun 04, 2022 at 11:02 AM PDT
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Just as with the pincer attack conservatives have launched against both race directly (instead of sotto voce) and liberalism at the same time—now they do the same with female personhood, via attacks on abortion (criminalizing sexuality after the fact)...
by novapsyche
12 comments
on Sat Apr 16, 2022 at 08:46 AM PDT
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I feel lately that when I write I have to write explanations of things that should be pretty well understood without needing a lot of detail, but boy oh boy do Republicans seemingly need the details. First, before we begin, I would like to add that I...
by Christopher Reeves
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on Tue Mar 29, 2022 at 10:10 AM PDT
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Crotch gazing, we all do it, it’s something inbred, deep, instinctual, it has a definite sexual component but it’s so much more. It is something residual from an evolutionary stand point, we can see very similar, if not more blatant, behavior at the...
by hosshoss777
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on Wed Nov 10, 2021 at 02:25 PM PST
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As I have written about before, I am Jewish and Bisexual. Other than the first 3 years of public school growing up in a majority gentile neighborhood, from 4th grade until graduation (Maybe this includes our formative years coming to a head when we...
by CameronProf
42 comments
on Mon Sep 27, 2021 at 06:47 PM PDT
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I knew I was different when I was 9 years old, and I had my first sexual experience with a neighborhood friend, one year older than I was. It seemed like something, though I did not know what it was at the time, awakened in me. As I grew I knew I had...
by CameronProf
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on Mon Mar 15, 2021 at 12:11 AM PDT
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The public has a fundamental misunderstanding of the role bathhouses can play in queer communities, and Carlos Reynoso has had a hell of a time shifting the narrative around them because his online ...
by Tina Vasquez
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on Wed Feb 03, 2021 at 05:30 AM PST
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We’re weeks away from an enormously important election, the novel coronavirus continues to slam the nation, unemployment is sky-high, people are terrified of losing their housing, and, somehow, parents are still finding time to protest a (very mild)...
by Marissa Higgins
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on Wed Oct 21, 2020 at 11:59 AM PDT
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#MeToo is a contemporary movement of sexual morality. �It used to be we kept women in the home. �Now we have mixed workplaces, which increase the probability of sexual conflict. �It would be unfair ...
by SolarKitty
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on Tue Oct 06, 2020 at 10:15 AM PDT
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This explainer is part of Prism's series on sex positivity and the arts. Read the rest of the series here. By Bianca I. Laureano, featuring original illustrations by Zahira Kelly Sex positivity has become a buzzword among many sex professionals...
by Prism Guest Writer
129 comments
on Wed Sep 23, 2020 at 06:30 PM PDT
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A ? from a gay (Technically Bi) male to my heterosexual allies/friends...after sharing my own story. I first knew that I was different when I was 9 years old and I had my first same sex encounter. I felt “right” for the first time in my life. It seems odd to say, but even at that young age I knew I was different in some way… that I was not just...
by BFSkinner
49 comments
on Fri Apr 17, 2020 at 09:07 PM PDT
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Of all sexual minorities, probably the most undercounted is the one I belong to: heteroromantic asexuals. That for the obvious reason that heteroromantic asexuals usually identify as heterosexual since, in common parlance, that describes the gender one...
by Jackson Hamilton
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on Fri Apr 17, 2020 at 03:44 AM PDT
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I am gonna try and write this and sneak away. As a person of science, i never took the sociolgy courses, so the patriarchy word rings rather hollow to me. Yes, there are patriarchs and matriarchs. I take some issue over blaming things all on the...
by TexMex
20 comments
on Fri Mar 06, 2020 at 10:39 AM PST
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