Category: Sexuality
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Ignorance and Myopia
by Jason Stotts When I first started studying philosophy, I was surprised at how committed I was to beliefs that I had never really considered. In fact, I seemed to be trapped in a web of ideas that I had obtained through the culture through a kind of mental osmosis. I was committed to this…
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Erosophia Podcast #5: Same-Sex Marriage
In this episode of the newly relaunched Erosophia Podcast, Jason, William, Devin, and Joia talk about same-sex marriage. News 1. Herpes Strikes Two More Infants After Ritual Circumcision 2. Judge orders morning-after pill available without prescription 3. Bet You Can’t Tell The Difference Between These Actual Anti-Interracial And Anti-Gay Marriage Quotes 4. Introducing the Condom of the…
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Havelock Ellis
by Jason Stotts I recently started reading Havelock Ellis’s Studies in the Psychology of Sex (if you don’t know who he is, he’s very important for sexual theory; see the wikipedia article linked). So far, I’m greatly enjoying them and I’ve only just begun! In fact, I think I may love Ellis. Here’s some of…
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Radically Candid Interview: Tackling Polysexuality
by Jason Stotts I was interviewed by the Radically Candid Podcast again recently and the show is now up! As is always the case with Radically Candid, we talked about a lot of different topics, but we primarily talked about polysexuality and various issues as related to it. It was a lot of fun recording…
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On Polysexuality (Revised)
by Jason Stotts Summary: Our language related to sex must be expanded to capture all of the variations that we see in real life. And we need to understand this because sex is good and a valuable part of a human life. The way we structure our relationships and sex lives has a lot of optionality…
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On Homophobia
by Jason Stotts I think the topic of homophobia is fascinating, because I think all too many people misunderstand what homophobia means. Most dictionary and common-use definitions consider “homophobia” to be a fear of, or aversion to, homosexuals. I, however, don’t think that’s quite right. I think the term “homophobia” is great. It is a…
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Same-Sex Marriage and the Supreme Court
by Jason Stotts I’ve been busy getting the podcast together and getting ready for another interview with Radically Candid today. However, I want everyone to know (like you wouldn’t already know this), that Erosophia fully supports same-sex marriage and will continue to fight the philosophical battles related to same-sex marriage and just gays being treated like…
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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…