Archive for April 2019
Can Colleges Ban Porn?
Catholic universities, and other religious institutes of higher learning, have a right to maintain codes of morality that they see as consistent with their religious beliefs. If they think porn contradicts those beliefs, they have a right to prohibit it from campuses, including virtual premises. They have the right. But are they wise in doing…
Read MorePorn: From Visual Images to Connectivity
The Start of the Porn Industry The porn industry owed its initial start to the male masturbation market in the 1970s. There was an enormous unsatisfied pool of male desire. It was in these years that images started to take over from “dime novels,” where all you had was text. (The appeal of text…
Read MoreIs “I Love You” Romantic or Sexual? That Depends.
What Does “I Love You” Mean? In her Washington Post article, “What does ‘I love you’ mean? It depends on where you say it and what language you speak,” Alice Robb is not really discussing what “love” means. The term is so context-dependent that it’s like discussing what “success” means. The really interesting question is…
Read MoreHow to Explain the Increase in Young Virgins?
Young Virginity in Japan and in the United States The increase in young men not having sex in Japan, reported by CNN, mirrors what is happening internationally. In the United States as well, there’s been a similar rise in young-male virginity (18-30 age group), up from 15 percent in 1989 to 28 percent in 2018.…
Read MoreEveryone Is Talking About Female Sexual Dysfunction (FSD)
What’s Really Going On With Female Sexual Dysfunction (FSD)? Female sexual dysfunction (FSD) is a big topic right now. Here is an example of a program on it from the Royal Society of Medicine in England. But FSD programs are everywhere. It’s almost enough to convince one that FSD is of epidemic proportions, but that…
Read MoreLeggings Are Now Dominant in Our Culture
In a recent New York Times article, Vanessa Friedman asks, ” When did leggings make the leap from garment to cultural lightning rod?” When, indeed? The appeal of leggings is not rocket science. And the priests at Notre Dame know evil when they see it: Women’s legs and butts look terrific in the leggings silhouette.…
Read MoreThe General Social Survey Ignores Porn
According to a March 29 Washington Post article, “The share of Americans not having sex has reached a record high,” the most recent General Social Survey has found that young guys are having sex much less often, and there is no big change for other age groups. The usual, clueless suspects have been surprised, but…
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