by Jason Stotts Someone asked me at ATLOSCon what I thought about prostitution and I’m glad that I didn’t get asked the question during my lecture.  I think I gave a pretty good answer to their question, but it’s one of those questions that I have not spent enough time thinking about to give a [...]

by Jason Stotts I want to thank everyone who attended my lecture this morning.  I hope that everyone found it interesting and engaging.  If you’re interested in further readings, I recommend starting with the following: 1. “Of Living Death,” The Objectivist.  Especially 530-531. (Or: The Voice of Reason, 46-63.) 2. “Francisco’s Sex Speech,” from Atlas Shrugged, [...]

by Jason Stotts There are few qualities relating to sex that are as attractive as enthusiasm.  Indeed, enthusiasm can make up for a quite a bit in other departments and it’s lack can seriously undermine even the best of other qualities.  Enthusiasm can turn what would have been a mediocre sexual encounter into an exceptional [...]

by Jason Stotts Kelly Elmore has a very kind piece up on her blog Reepicheep’s Coracle about my talk at ATLOSCon, called “Sex at ATLOSCon.”  Now, before you get the wrong idea, I’m not going to be having sex with anyone at ATLOSCon (they’re not paying me enough for that!).  The piece contains some very [...]

by Jason Stotts Some of you may recall that I posted a call for my readers to go and participate in the “Sex and Secularism Survey” that Dr. Darrel Ray (of The God Virus fame) put out in January.  The results of the survey are now available on his website http://ipcpress.com/ (you have to register for [...]

by Jason Stotts Realistically, the question of whether your genitals are normal is fundamentally flawed. It’s more important whether they function correctly than whether they look like everyone else’s genitals.  Regardless, though, it’s important to like your genitals for what they are, as there is very little you can do to change them.  This video [...]

Welcome to the May 12, 2011 edition of the Objectivist Round Up! This is the 200th edition of the Carnival and is also the second annual Birthday Carnival for me, although last year it was actually on my birthday and this year it’s the day before. Today’s quote is from the Virtue of Selfishness: The [...]

by Jason Stotts So, as many of you know, I’m going to be speaking this summer at ATLOSCon.  I’m supposed to make a flyer to help promote my blog there and I definitely want to do that to help bring in new readers.  The problem is that I’m not that into designing and I don’t [...]

by Jason Stotts There is nothing more dangerous to a citizenry than its government.  Whether with “good intentions” or simply a lust for power, governments, particularly communist and socialist governments, kill their own citizens at an astounding rate. R. J. Rummel, Professor Emeritus at the Univerisity of Hawaii, says that: The bubonic plague that in [...]

by Jason Stotts I had this question on Formspring the other day: Is their a puritanical minority amongst Objectivists? The answer is definitely, absolutely, without a doubt: yes. I know that Peikoff has complained about them in his podcast on multiple occasions and I certainly agree with him on this point.  I think that it’s predominantly [...]