A More Intimate Love of Wisdom
by Jason Stotts All three of these articles are worth reading. They’re each very interesting in different ways. 1. What Science Says About Arousal During Rape Arousal and orgasm during rape happen. Probably much more often than we know. It is not a sign of guilt or pleasure. It in no way indicates consent. It is [...]
by Jason Stotts I love The Onion: their satire is brilliant and often scathing. I’m aslo impressed at how quickly they can get their videos together. College Basketball Star Heroically Overcomes Tragic Rape He Committed In case you don’t get this, you should watch the news more often (or click here). Automatically Generated [...]
by Jason Stotts 1. Sara Reedy wins in Court A woman gets raped during a robbery, accused of the theft, and then jailed. She filed suit against the police and eventually wins. Her case is alarming and worth reading if you aren’t familiar with it. 2. The GOP is still Advocating Rape I discussed Todd [...]
by Jason Stotts Doesn’t it seem like the Republicans and Democrats have been awkwardly pro-rape lately? A couple of days ago a bunch of satirical posters appeared on Facebook purporting to be from the “Brady Campaign to End Gun Violence,” a principally democratic group that seeks to outlaw guns and remove them completely from American [...]
by Jason Stotts My new essay on Objectivism and BDSM is now live on Amazon! “An Essay on The Bounds of Passion and the Good Life: Alternative Sexualities and Ayn Rand’s Objectivism” The description is: Ayn Rand’s books are full of depictions of sexuality that are well outside the norm. These depictions range from general [...]
by Jason Stotts 1. A new law designed to prevent rabbis from fellating infants who they have just mutilated and potentially giving them herpes might be taking effect soon in New York City. The rabbis protest that it is their “freedom of religion” to fellate these young boys they’ve just mutilated. I think that freedom [...]
by Jason Stotts By now I’m sure you’ve heard about Representative Todd Akin (R-MO). He’s pretty “famous” for saying: “It seems to me, from what I understand from doctors, [abortion in the case of rape is] really rare,” Akin told Charles Jaco of KTVI. “If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to [...]
by Jason Stotts It’s easy enough to make mistakes. It is not so easy, however, to admit it when you do so and act to correct your mistake. Admirably, Leonard Peikoff has done just that, recanting his earlier position on rape, saying: I want to correct a significant error I have made in an earlier [...]