by Jason Stotts As I was looking back over the essays I’ve written this year for the OBloggers “Best of 2009 Carnival,” I realized that there were a lot of good essays from this year.  I had a really hard time picking out my favorite and so I decided to do my own Top 10 [...]

by Jason Stotts Europe and Me Magazine has published an interesting article called “Prostitution as as Student Job.” The article discusses the rise of prostitution as a way that many female students are paying their way through college and grad school. The common theme in the article is that the women are turning to prostitution [...]

by Jason Stotts I was incredibly surprised to find this article “Australia to Implement Mandatory Internet Censorship.” Apparently, Australia thinks that China is the country to model and doesn’t think that its citizens have the moral or intellectual capacity to judge what they want to see on the internet.  Consequently, in order to block “illegal [...]

by Jason Stotts (Source: Wiki-Commons) Mexico city has just passed legislation that legalizes gay marriage by redefining marriage from a union of a man and a woman to “the free uniting of two people” (according to the Huffington Post).  This is a surprising move since Mexico is a strongly catholic country and, obviously, catholics hate homosexuals. [...]

by Jason Stotts In a shady move last night, the Senate passed cloture around 1AM which will allow the Senate health care bill to be voted upon on the floor in short order. This bill will represent the largest expansion of governmental power in a long time.  Some quotes from a couple of articles are [...]

by Jason Stotts Gen. Anthony Cucolo, the General in charge of Northern Iraq, has come up with a brilliant new idea to prevent troop loss: punish women for getting pregnant.  He tries to justify his position by saying: “I need every soldier I’ve got, especially since we are facing a drawdown of forces during our [...]

by Jason Stotts There are many words in our language to describe orgasm, but two of the more etymologically interesting are “ejaculate” and “cum.” Ejaculate – 1578, “emit semen,” from L. ejaculatus, pp. of ejaculari, from ex- “out” + jaculari “to throw, dart,” from jaculum “javelin,” from jacere “to throw.” Only other surviving sense is “exclaim suddenly” (1666). (ejaculate) Interestingly, until [...]

by Jason Stotts In our never-ending quest to learn and understand everything about sex, Erosophia is going to try something new. We’re going to be having a candid interview with a couple who has been in the lifestyle (swingers) for some time now about what it is like and why they do it. If you have [...]

by Jason Stotts The Telegraph (UK) is reporting on a new study done with mice that could alter the way we think about the fixedness of our sex and our idea of sexual development. The idea used to be that babies were of an undifferentiated sex until chromosomal activity caused the developing baby to head [...]

by Jason Stotts Gary Hull has just published a new book on the Muhammad cartoons and the controversy they caused.  You can pick it up at Amazon (Muhammad: The “Banned” Images) or at their website www.muhammadimages.com/ (it’s cheaper on their website). The statement of principle is so good that I have to repost it here: Free [...]