Archive for March, 2011

Contribute to Porn Research

March 30, 2011

by Jason Stotts There is a new study being done looking to understand how exactly real people use porn in their everyday lives.  I want to encourage everyone to go and take the survey and be honest in your responses, even if you never use porn.  This information could really help shed light on porn [...]

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“Green Technology”

March 29, 2011

by Jason Stotts I think this sums up my view pretty accurately. Automatically Generated Related Posts:Presidential Candidates and LibertyStarbucks Doesn’t Get ItGary Johnson“Unexpected” OutcomesDemocide

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ATLOSCon or Bust (Update)

March 28, 2011

by Jason Stotts I put up a call for readers to donate and help me pay for my plane ticket to speak at ATLOSCon this summer and so far the response has been great.  After only 10 days or so, I’ve already had people donate or commit to donating $95!  Since the ticket is $310, [...]

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Sex Workers to Gain Rights in US?

March 28, 2011

by Jason Stotts Apparently last week the US delegation to the UN affirmed a commitment (political speech for: promising, in a non-binding way, of, perhaps, at some point in the future, if things work out, and people remember and hold them to it) that sex workers in the US will receive some legal protection (link). [...]

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Fetuses and Personhood

March 26, 2011

by Jason Stotts While driving home today on the freeway, I was thinking about an essay I’m working on about abortion.  I was driving in the carpool lane and the sign said that in order to drive in the carpool lane, the car must be occupied by “two or more persons.”  This got me to [...]

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Sex Tips #3: Rags

March 25, 2011

by Jason Stotts Today’s tip is a simple one, but one that I know not everyone has thought of.  The tip is this: keep rags by your bed. Imagine this: you are in a fluid bonded relationship, you get tested and it comes back clean, you stop using condoms, you have sex and semen ends [...]

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Sex Tips

March 23, 2011

by Jason Stotts My regular readers will remember a feature I started called “Sex Tips” in which I gave simple tips for how to improve your sex life.  I had originally intended to make Sex Tips a regular feature, but after the launch of it and the first two tips, I scrapped it because of [...]

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XKCD Waxes Philosophical

March 22, 2011

by Jason Stotts I really like this. (Alt text: Socrates could’ve saved himself a lot of trouble if he’d just bought a flashlight, tranquilizer gun, and a bunch of rescue harnesses.) Automatically Generated Related Posts:The Big Bad WolfBest. Prank. Ever.Girls Watch Porn, TooDamn You Autocorrect“I Just Had Sex”

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Blogroll

March 22, 2011

by Jason Stotts It’s been nearly a year since I updated my blogroll and I’m going to be doing it soon.  If you want to be added to it, leave a comment with a link to your blog and I’ll check it out.  If I like what I see, I’ll add you to the list. [...]

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Male Contraception Moving Closer?

March 20, 2011

by Jason Stotts In a recent Scientific American article, they discuss two new discoveries regarding fertilization of eggs and human seminal activity.  The discoveries are that 1) eggs are surrounded by cells that produce progesterone and that 2) progesterone activates a molecular channel in human sperm called CatSper which floods the sperm with calcium, causing [...]

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