Category: “Erosophia.Blogspot”

  • Sexual Intelligence Awards

    by Jason Stotts On his blog Sexual Intelligence, author and therepist Dr. Marty Klein, hosts a yearly round up of those people who “challenge the sexual fear, unrealistic expectations, and government hypocrisy that undermine love, sex, and relationships—and political freedom—today.”  This is called the Sexual Intelligence awards and this year Dr. Klein honors some very…

  • The Office

    by Jason Stotts If you like The Office, you’ll be sure to love The Japanese Office.

  • Relationships: A Continuum of Permissiveness

    by Jason Stotts In this essay, I want to explore the concept of permissiveness and exclusivity as they relate to relationships.  I want to explore the idea that relationships exist along a continuum of permissiveness with a completely jealous relationship at one extreme and an open relationship at the other, with exclusive relationships and swinging…

  • TED: Temple Grandin

    by Jason Stotts In one of the most epistemologically interesting videos I’ve ever seen, Temple Grandin talks about what it is like to think as an autistic person.  From the description: Temple Grandin, diagnosed with autism as a child, talks about how her mind works — sharing her ability to “think in pictures,” which helps…

  • McDonlad v. Chicago

    by Jason Stotts In case anyone wants to read history as it happens, the oral arguments of the Supreme Court case McDonald v. Chicago on Second Amendment Rights and Incorporation is now available on the SCOTUS website: here. I read the entire thing and I have to say that I quite enjoyed it.  I actually…

  • Freedom From Religion

    by Jason Stotts The Freedom from Religion Foundation has a scholarship contest running now about, you guessed it, freedom from religion.  In case you’ve never heard of them, their “about FFRF” is: The history of Western civilization shows us that most social and moral progress has been brought about by persons free from religion. In…

  • Psychological Perspective on Whipping

    by Jason Stotts I found an interesting account of a woman explaining why she likes to be whipped.  The post is from the blog Beautiful, Depraved (apparently now defunct) and is called ‘6’: The 400 Blows: Pleasure is Pain. (Warning: the site contains nudity) I have a strong mind and an even stronger will. While…

  • "Excused Horrors"

    by Jason Stotts Back in November, Walter Williams wrote a piece called “Excused Horrors” that I meant to blog about, but it somehow got lost in the shuffle.  However, it was good enough that I still think people should take a look at it and think about Williams’s point. Nazis were responsible for the deaths…