Erosophia

Year: 2015

  • News and Assorted Articles

    by Jason Stotts 1. FDA Overturns 30-year Ban on Blood Donations by Gay Men Well, sort of… Yesterday, the FDA decided that gay men (or any men who have sex with men) are allowed to donate blood IF they have not had sex with a man in the last 12 months. I guess this is…

  • Coffee House Chronicles: Episode 5

    by Jason Stotts I’ve posted about it before, but some of my friends are doing a web-series about the realities of gay dating today. This episode touches on pegging, which as you know I’ve written about before at length (On Pegging & On Pegging 2). I have it on good authority that I may even…

  • Update on Eros and Ethos

    by Jason Stotts I’m writing with an update on my forthcoming book Eros and Ethos: A New Theory and Practice of Sexual Ethics. Eros and Ethos is completely written and is in editing now. I’m making great progress with my editors and we hope to have everything ready for publication in the Spring. As we get…

  • Porn on Halloween

    by Jason Stotts What kind of porn do people look for around Halloween? According to PornHub, people’s taste in porn goes along with the season: (Source: PornHub) They’ve got a lot more data for those who want to find out the details, so check it out.

  • Aporia: Pleasure

    by Jason Stotts Aporia (ἀπορɛία): an impasse, puzzlement, doubt, or confusion; a difficulty encountered in establishing the theoretical truth of a proposition, created by the presence of evidence both for and against it. In this Aporia, I want to inquire into the nature of pleasure. In Eros and Ethos, I made the claim that: Now, I want to explicitly make the…

  • Assisted Suicide Now Legal in California

    by Jason Stotts The governor of California, Jerry “Moonbeam” Brown, has recently made the right choice to sign into law a bill that makes it legal for physicians to prescribe lethal doses of drugs for people who are terminally ill and still mentally competent to make the choice to die (LA Times). This is a…

  • Coffee House Chronicles: Episode 4: Perfect Present

    by Jason Stotts Some of my friends are doing a really funny webseries called “Coffee House Chronicles” about gay dating today. It’s really funny and addresses real issues. Check it out!

  • News and Other Interesting Things

    by Jason Stotts 1. Scientists Celebrate the Weird World of Animal Genitalia Have you ever wondered what penises look like throughout the animal kingdom? Well, it’s your lucky day. (NSFW? Article on WaPo; more on Twitter) 2. How Many Scientists Does It Take to Write a Paper? Apparently, Thousands  In less than a decade, Dr. Aad,…