Erosophia

Category: Sexuality

  • Boy Scouts of America Now Allowing Gay Volunteers

    by Jason Stotts Apparently the Boy Scouts of America is now allowing gay men to volunteer to be leaders. The Boy Scouts of America on Monday announced an executive committee has unanimously approved a resolution that would allow openly gay adults to hold leadership positions within the organization. The Boy Scouts of America Executive Committee…

  • PSA: How to Measure Your Penis

    by Jason Stotts I sometimes see pictures of men measuring their penises in all sorts of wrong ways. While you can measure it however you want, it’s not helpful to anyone. It’s like measuring your height while standing on your toes: it’s just not the right way to measure this. So, how do you measure your penis? You…

  • Women and Sexuality

    by Jason Stotts In our culture today, we are inundated by the idea that men are nearly incontrollable sex-monsters who will stop at nothing to satisfy their needs, while women do not enjoy sex and have it merely to achieve some end. Yet, this is a relatively new development as until recently, women were considered…

  • Children and Sexuality

    by Jason Stotts We’ve talked about children and sexuality several times on the podcast (episodes #23, #24, & #25). What we haven’t talked much about is better options for educating children about sexuality. Luckily, PBS (of all places) just recently published a really good article called “The Case for Starting Sex Education in Kindergarten.” In it, they show…

  • Mature Love

    by Jason Stotts I saw this series of illustrations earlier and I think it makes a very powerful point: mature love isn’t desperate, mature love is creating a life together through little moments and many choices. While in our culture we are very entrenched in the paradigm of desperate longing (a la Romeo and Juliet),…

  • Humor: Why You Are Circumcised

    by Jason Stotts YES! I’ve made these exact arguments over and over. Of course, the ultimate reason is the religious hatred of the body and sexuality, but this video still does an excellent job. http://www.collegehumor.com/video/6966989/the-real-reason-youre-circumcised

  • Best of 2014

    by Jason Stotts Last year, 2014, was an exceptionally busy year.  I worked on revising my book Eros and Ethos and my MA in Clinical Psychology. Something about full-time grad school and working full-time, in addition to working on Eros and Ethos, hasn’t left me as much time as I would have liked to write essays…

  • Question: Pornography and Ayn Rand

    by Jason Stotts I get a lot of interesting questions at Erosophia and I try to answer as many of them as I can. When I think the question and answer is particularly interesting, I usually publish an anonymized version of it.  This is one of those. Hi Jason. What is your basic advice on using…