Loving Our Inner Bonobo: SABC*
May 18, 2012*Sex Anytime Book Club (With Chapter 4, our virtual book club continues reading Sex At Dawn by Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jethá) A thought experiment: What if we were genetically programmed to be vastly more sexual in every way than our cultures typically allow? What if that sexuality were the fundamental truth about our species…
God is Afraid of My Song?
May 17, 2012When religious people behave badly in the name of God one has to question who’s more of a danger to religion, them or those they criticize. Many of us in the SF Community like religion. Many of us think religion is a dead, hopelessly outdated subject like alchemy. Leery of hardline believers who claim to…
Got a Dog in this Fight?
May 15, 2012In the landscape of sexual politics it is a truism that splinter groups stand alone. Women vs men, gays vs straights, religious majorities vs everyone else and so on. Sometimes there are good reasons for focusing on, say, black lesbian support–but black lesbians in South Africa should never, ever have to stand alone. Nor should…
Because the Bible Says So, Dummy!
May 14, 2012“President Obama has betrayed the Bible and the black church with his endorsement of same-sex marriage.”–Pastor Dwight McKissic The prevailing black American reaction to President Obama’s embrace of marriage equality for gay Americans is relevant to sexual futurists around the world. Why? Because whether Muslim, Christian, Hindu or Jew, all religions have hard-liners who try…
Bad Ass Bishops Take On Girl Scouts
May 13, 2012Christians used to face off with lions in the Roman coliseum. Sigh. Now we are reduced to picking fights with girls. For more on the decline of Western civilization see the New York Times, The men who run the Catholic Church seem to have a lot of time on their hands. In April, the Vatican…
Puny God!
May 11, 2012Don’t we all love it when a snide villain like Loki in the film The Avengers gets his comeuppance? The 2012 American presidential campaign is riding the wave of this same vibe. First of all, credit where credit is due: liberal TV political pundit Rachel Maddow (start 8 minutes into the 22 minute segment) recently…
The Sky Did Not Fall
May 10, 2012Yesterday President Barak Obama became the first sitting president in the US to come out publicly in support of marriage equality for gay people. Unbelievably, my hetero marriage is still OK. The sky did not fall. In fact, after all the fear mongering of the past the response from the sacred right wing of the…
Inescapably Sexual, But Very Nice Nevertheless: SABC*
May 9, 2012*Sex Anytime Book Club (A virtual book club for reading and talking about some of the innovative thinking about human sexuality. We’re reading Sex At Dawn, Chapter 3.) The authors of Sex At Dawn trumpet two themes in this chapter: (1) “…[we're] a species with a secret it just can’t keep. Homo sapiens evolved to…
Getting Harder to Hate Queers
May 8, 2012It’s so much easier to hate those who are different. Imagine overhearing a group talking about someone they hate and realizing that everything that they hate about that person is also true of you. Hard to join in, isn’t it? When it comes to the LGBT community, even we who pride ourselves most on being…
Hating Creation
May 7, 2012One doesn’t have to hate religion to hate glad handing. Glad handing: that insincere, effusive touch that signals superficial acceptance but raises the question of just how welcome is the newcomer. Certainly among many houses of worship, the human body, with its sexuality, its sexual thoughts, needs, fantasies and diversity is not welcome. But in…
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God is Afraid of My Song?
When religious people behave badly in the name of God one has to question who's more of a danger to religion,...
Got a Dog in this Fight?
In the landscape of sexual politics it is a truism that splinter groups stand alone. Women vs men, gays vs straights,...
Because the Bible Says So, Dummy!
"President Obama has betrayed the Bible and the black church with his endorsement of same-sex marriage."--Pastor Dwight McKissic The prevailing black...
