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Let’s See What’s in the News Today: 7/9/2011
A lot of stuff has been happening. Let’s check it out: Sex In the New York Times, Dan Savage talks about different forms of relationships in an interesting article about how non-monogamous relationships may not be so bad. Keep things honest! … Continue reading
Neil Sinhababu is Fantastic
Neil Sinhababu is a philosopher at the National University in Singapore. After going through his blog and listening to a podcast, and reading one of his papers on Possible Girls, he’s now become someone whom I frequently look up. Sinhababu … Continue reading
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New Charts on Sexual Attitudes (4/21/2011)
Okcupid.com has some interesting charts on sexual attitudes. It almost has a Freakonomics feel to it where two unrelated categories are all of the sudden related. Some of it is fascinating, but others really make you scratch your head. I’ll … Continue reading
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Book Review: Marriage, a History: From Obedience to Intimacy or How Love Conquered Marriage by Stephanie Coontz
I had the joy of reading this book last year and I’ve been meaning to do a review on it. Well, the time is now. However, I’m not going to simply spell out the book. It’s so good that you … Continue reading
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Let’s See What’s in the News Today: 12/20/2010
Economics An interesting article arguing that tax cuts do NOT create jobs. The argument uses something simple: math. Now there’s some facts you can’t dispute with. Steven Landsburg has an interesting libertarian argument saying that if you’re against the health … Continue reading
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Tagged Economics, Logic, News, Pornography, Sexuality
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Let’s See What’s in the News Today: 11/28/2010
Relationships and Sexuality In the Time Magazine this week, the headline cover was Who Needs Marriage? The results are quite interesting: the more educated and wealthy you are, the more likely you get married. Here are some more interesting stats … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Economics, Marriage, News, Paper Topic, Relationships, Respect, Sexuality
Tagged Culture, Economics, Marriage, News, Paper Topic, Relationships, Sexuality
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Book Review: This Land is Their Land by Barbara Ehrenreich
I just read This Land is Your Their Land by Barbara Ehrenreich. I was somewhat looking forward to it because I read another book of her’s, Nickel and Dimed. I liked that book so I expected to like this one … Continue reading
Unmarried to Each Other
There’s some interesting movements, books, and articles about how being unmarried to each other is the new social action. I applaud this movement, mainly because it’s an expression of freedom. Moreover, marriage is an evolving idea that has shifted the … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, History, Love, Monogamy, Relationships, Sexuality
Tagged Culture, History, Love, Marriage, Monogamy, Relationships, Sexuality
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Sexist Jokes Provokes Tolerance of Violence Towards Women
In an interesting study, the results showed that telling sexist jokes creates an atmosphere where violence towards women is tolerable or perhaps acceptable. In a way, it doesn’t surprise me. I’ve talked about language and equality in a previous blog … Continue reading
Posted in Humor, Language, Relationships, Respect, Sexuality
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Book Review: Is Sex Necessary? by James Thurber and E.B. White
Yes, it’s the same author who did Charlotte’s Web. However, I was expecting something completely different from this book. It turns out that this book is a parody. Imagine 1929. In the field of sexuality, Freud was the man. Ellis … Continue reading
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