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Polysexuality and Cultural Acceptability
The current US population is 313,914,040 people, 313 million people. If you put all those polysexual people in one state it would be the 5th most populated state in the US. That those 5% of the US population, those 1 in 20 people feel ashamed at their desires and feel like they’ll be rejected by society…
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College Basketball Star Heroically Overcomes Tragic Rape He Committed
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).
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On Companionate Marriages
by Jason Stotts There are lots of different kinds of marriages, and I don’t just mean same-sex marriages, poly-marriages, and other “non-traditional” marriages. There are different ways to have just “regular” old marriages between two people. One kind of marriage is a romantic marriage where two partners intertwine their lives and share a high level…
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Erosophia Podcast #3: The Morality of Oral Sex
In this episode of the newly relaunched Erosophia Podcast, Jason, William, Devin, and Joia talk about the morality of oral sex. You can subscribe via iTunes or RSS.
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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…
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