Month: May 2012
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ATLOSCon 2012 Recap
by Jason Stotts As you probably know, I’ve been on vacation for roughly the last week in Atlanta for ATLOSCon 2012. It was a great experience like last year and I had a really good time reconnecting with old friends and getting to know some new people. Thursday night was the opening banquet and I…
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ATLOSCon 2012
by Jason Stotts The Atlanta Objectivist Society’s Mini-Conference ATLSOCon is coming up in just a couple of days and I’m really excited to be going again and presenting not only a class during ATLSOCon proper, but also a special workshop on practical sexual techniques (no, it’s not an orgy). If you haven’t already registered, you should…
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Review: Living Proof
by Jason Stotts As a writer myself trying to get my first book published, I know how hard it is to get a book in front of a publisher, let alone get them to read it. To actually take it all the way to publication is quite the achievement today, when publishers would much rather…
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PSA: Cleanliness
by Jason Stotts I really feel like I shouldn’t have to write this post, but I fear that all too many people don’t understand basic hygiene well enough that it’s warranted. One of my readers pointed out that in a Savage Love podcast sometime back (Episode 188 at the 5:30 mark) a man had a question about his…
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Aporia: Is Physical Beauty Itself a Value?
by Jason Stotts I often get asked, because I advocate that sexual attraction is a response to values, whether physical beauty is a value. The intention of the question is, of course, to see if I think that physical beauty is a sufficient value to justify sexual activity. I’ve always thought this was an interesting…
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Dan Savage Versus the Christians
by Jason Stotts One of the things I hate most about christianity, and there is oh so much I hate about it, is the christian propensity to find offense in everything they don’t like and to feel indignation when they are rebuffed: their feeling that they are always right and everyone else is always wrong.…
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Happy Birthday Erosophia!
by Jason Stotts It’s strange, but I don’t remember starting Erosophia. There was no big debut, no fireworks, no momentous decision. I think I just wanted to see what all the fuss was about blogging (it was newish back then) and wanted a place to put my thoughts down “on paper”. That was seven years…