Category: Sexuality
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The Map of Human Sexuality
by Jason Stotts I recently came across the “Map of Human Sexuality,” which is a large poster that details pretty much every human sexual activity and fantasy. If you’re thinking that that’s quite a lot, you’re right. In fact, there were some on there that I had never even heard of! It appears that people…
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Homosexuality and the Moral Fabric of Society
by Jason Stotts On my post yesterday “Natural Sexuality”, MadMax raised this question in a response to a question asked on Noodlefood: Do you think that homosexual marriage and homosexual adoption could in any way “threaten” heterosexual marriage? The argument is that allowing open homosexuality will encourage more of it and this will undermine the…
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"Natural Sexuality"
by Jason Stotts I came across a very clever essay by Jen over on her blog Blag Hag called “Natural Sexuality“. In the essay she makes the point that our conception of natural for sexuality is quite divergent from other animals. The point of the essay is to argue against monogamy, with which I do…
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Atheists and Sex
by Jason Stotts I was just directed to a really interesting article by Greta Christina called “Why Atheists have Great Sex.” The article is overall a good one, even if the author does not have the best moral position (her position is not entirely clear form this article). The thesis, though, is good: When you…
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On Bisexuality
by Jason Stotts I think it’s strange how bisexuality has been demonized, marginalized, and even taken to be no more than an illusory state that one passes through as a position between the two legitimate categories of homosexual and heterosexual. Frankly, I think that’s asinine. I think that there are more bisexuals (Kinsey 1-5’s) than…
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Kinsey and Sexual identity
by Jason Stotts For those few of you who have never heard of him, Alfred Kinsey (1894-1956) was an American sex researcher and a pioneer in the field of sex research. He is best known for his two books “Sexual Behavior in the Human Male” (1948) and “Sexual Behavior in the Human Female” (1953). But,…
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Aporia: Prostitution
by Jason Stotts I’ve been thinking about prostitution a fair amount recently and I must admit that I’m baffled by it. On the one hand, people have sex all the time for free, so why is it different when money is involved? On the other hand, aren’t there some things that should just not be…
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What Causes Sexual Attraction?
by Jason Stotts The issue of sexual desire is one of the great mysteries of the ages: it is a phenomenon that has persisted since before the Greeks, a phenomenon as old as sexuality itself. The issue, at first, seems as though it should be painfully obvious. Have not all of us experienced sexual desire?…