Year: 2012
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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…
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Happy Earth Day!
by Jason Stotts How can we hope to have healthy and successful lives, including sex lives, if we feel shame at the things that are necessary to maintain our society? If you don’t support free markets, then you don’t support freedom of the individual and it’s only a matter of time before someone will be along to…
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Objectivist Blog Carnival
Welcome to the April 19, 2012 edition of the Objectivist Round Up and the 13th time that Erosophia has hosted. This week I want to put up three quotes to remind everyone that nothing should be outside the purview of reason: “Tell me what a man finds sexually attractive and I will tell you his…
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ATLOSCon 2012
by Jason Stotts The registration for ATLOSCon 2012 in Atlanta is now live! That means it’s time for you to register for my class and my workshop on sex. Oh, you didn’t know that you’d be able to see me speaking live this year? Well, read on. This year at ATLOSCon I’m going to be…