Month: March 2013
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Fantasy and the “Cannibal Cop”
by Jason Stotts Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve heard the story of the “cannibal cop” (Gilberto Valle) who fantasized about killing and eating women in New York. Today he was convicted of plotting to kidnap a woman and improper use of a police database and sentenced for it. Now, usually I wouldn’t bring…
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On Fantasy, its Bounds, and Moral Implications Thereof
by Jason Stotts Note: This essay is adapted from the lecture I gave at ATLOSCon 2012 on “Sexual Attraction and Fantasy.” What is fantasy? I’m sure you know what fantasy is, but can you clearly articulate it? Fantasy is one of those things that we all know, but whose exact nature it can be hard…
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News and other Interesting Things
by Jason Stotts 1.US doctors cure child born with HIV. This is amazing news and with all the advances against HIV in the past couple of years, we may be nearing the end of the scourge. Dr Hannah Gay, who cared for the child at the University of Mississippi medical centre, told the Guardian the…
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About Erosophia
by Jason Stotts tl:dr version: Erosophia is dedicated to understanding sex from a philosophical perspective. I want to create a new field of philosophy called “sexual ethics.” I think sexual ethics must rely on a eudaimonistic framework whose goal is the long-term living well of the individual. I don’t talk much about my meta-goals here…