Month: May 2014
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Eros and Ethos Cover
by Jason Stotts You probably already know this, but my book Eros and Ethos: A New Theory and Application of Sexual Ethics is done in draft and is being edited now. I’ve been working with a graphic designer (http://josephpearsondesigner.com/) to create the cover and he’s come up with some really good stuff. At this point, we…
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But Who Gets to Keep the Nudes?
by Jason Stotts In a very interesting decision, a German court ruled that you can’t keep nude pictures of your former lovers, if they ask you to delete them. Under this ruling a person can retroactively withdrawal consent from any nude photo. Now, it’ll be interesting to see if the people in question needed to have had…
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Ill-Defined Harm: A Review of Jesse Bering’s Perv
by Jason Stotts Let me start by saying that overall, I enjoyed Jesse Bering’s new book Perv: The Sexual Deviant in All of Us. Bering does a great job of parsing psychological studies and medical texts in a way that’s easily readable and interesting. In fact, overall I recommend Perv and think that most people…
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Happy Birthday Erosophia!
by Jason Stotts Today is Erosophia’s 9th birthday! I can’t believe I’ve been blogging for so long! In that time, I’ve written 440,658 words for Erosophia alone! And that’s only what was published, not counting all of the editing cuts and essays that were never put up. It’s really crazy how long I’ve been blogging,…
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Marxist Theory of Sexual Labor
by Jason Stotts Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal has a new amazing comic that is not only hilarious, but also shows the absurdity of the Marxist theory of value creation through labor. In case you don’t know, Marx believed that value is created through labor. So, for example, let’s say that you have a factory with…
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Erosophia Podcast #20: Exhibitionism and Voyeurism
In this episode of the Erosophia Podcast, Jason, Devin, William and Joia discuss Exhibitionism and Voyeurism. News We are no longer a teenage podcast! We are on podcast number twenty. Our previous offer for donation still stands! The first person to donate any amount to the Erosophia podcast will be able to have their topic covered…
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The Obama DOJ and the War on Porn
by Jason Stotts In a move that sounds like it should be coming from the Republican/Theocratic party, the Obama administration is targeting the bank accounts of porn stars and forcing banks to close them through a program they’re calling “operation choke point.” This is a massive overreach (again) of the Obama administration and a flatly…