Sexuality & Reason: The Slippery Slope
February 19, 2012People who hate the idea of gay marriage often say it’s “a threat to marriage.” Sometimes they throw in the phrase “institution of marriage,” sometimes “traditional marriage” or even “Christian marriage.” Sexual Futurist has been wondering “Where’s the threat?” Being hetero, married and the owner of a number of firearms, I am prepared for the…
Come Watson, The Game’s Afoot!
February 13, 2012Sherlock Holmes’ daddy was a sexual futurist. Set in a London that is forever 1895, the author Arthur Conan Doyle lived smack dab in the Victorian Era–hardly a time known for sexual equality and forthright, intelligent management of human sexuality. But, having just finished Michael Dirda’s On Conan Doyle, a delightful read for any friend…
We’re All in the Soup…Together
February 12, 2012Certainly there are exceptions but generally, when it comes to sex, conservatives are quite certain that liberals are destroying the very fabric of civilization while liberals cannot believe how long it is taking to get the conservative bootjack off the necks of humanity. Straights talk as if the very sanctity of marriage and the innocence…
Geezers Gettin’ Down
February 11, 2012Often enough parents feel a compelling need to talk to their children about sex and yet we’re often stuck, wondering how to begin. Perhaps beginning the conversation with our parents might be a good place to practice. We could hardly do them more harm than life itself already has. The above title does no justice…
One Million (Angry) Moms
February 9, 2012As reported by ABC, conservative pundit Bill O’Reilly has come to Ellen DeGeneres’ defense in the backlash against her JCPenney deal. O’Reilly defended the openly gay talk host against the conservative group One Million Moms, which has organized a boycott of JCPenney unless they fire DeGeneres as a spokeswoman. “This JCPenney thing is a witchhunt…
Paying For It
February 6, 2012Libertarians like Ron Paul often are open to the decriminalization of recreational drug use. When applying this same philosophy to sexuality, legalizing prostitution seems to be a reasonable next topic. Chester Brown is a Canadian cartoonist whose work is personal, gritty and controversial. In Paying For It, one of his more recent works, subsidized by…
The New Sex Police: Counselors
February 5, 2012Agent provocateur: a person or group that seeks to discredit or harm another by provocation, using the resulting social outcry for an excuse. In 2009, Julea Ward was a student at Eastern Michigan University in a counseling program when she told her professors that she would need to refer gay clients to someone else. Her…
Maurice Sendak, Kids & Sex
February 4, 2012Most parents have some issues with how to talk to their children about sex. Considering our own discomfort and tendency to turn the topic of sex into a conversation only about intercourse perhaps we need to look a little closer at the subject and ourselves. In a recent (and absolutely hilarious) 2-part interview (please, watch)…
Paradoxical Intervention
February 1, 2012According to a recent posting to the LA Times, a new report from the Guttmacher Institute and the World Health Organization found that, The abortion rate was higher in parts of the world with restrictive abortion laws than it was in regions with liberal abortion laws. The numbers of abortions performed annually worldwide has held…
Some People Are Different…Doh!
January 28, 2012Some people who see homosexuality as a problem believe that sexual orientation is a choice. But on the other side of this issue of choice there are those who have been so beat up by the “it’s a choice” crowd that you better never disagree with them either. In the past some religious folk believed…
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