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…
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…
The Compass of Pleasure
January 29, 2012For most of us it is conceptually impossible to decouple addiction from pleasure. After all, who would get addicted to something they didn’t really like? So, the reasoning goes, we need to prevent people from experiencing the pleasure in the first place to prevent the addiction from forming. Applying this way of thinking to human…
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…
Sexuality: Can You See It?
January 27, 2012Often enough, people become uncomfortable when confronted with the topic of human sexuality. Until we get over this discomfort we’ll remain unable to intelligently and intentionally direct social and political policy. Sexual Futurist often meets people who think that the term “sexual” refers exclusively to “sex” as in “sexual intercourse. But human sexuality is so…
Sexual Equality in Our Future
January 18, 2012There is the future we have; then there is the future we and our children deserve. We can make choices for the one, but we will have to let go of the other. How to decide? Niaall Ferguson’s recent work “Civilization,” subtitled “The West and the Rest,” points out how, “six hundred years ago the…
Sex Addiction: Told You So
January 18, 2012“For over a century bad science has tried to present as facts something our bodies have already told us are lies. Until we see human sexuality within the context of human diversity we shall continue to be prey for the purveyors of intellectual snake oil.“–Sexual Futurist Sexual Futurist has long held that “sex addiction” is…
The Cruelty Games
January 15, 2012It is often the righteous zealot who is the most inhuman, the most cruel. These “true believers,” whether missionaries, preachers or suicide bombers, are so absolutely consumed with bolting toward righteousness that they simply don’t see us under their feet. Airing this month, there’s a new season of The Cruelty Games in Texas with your…
Not That Kind of Futurist!
January 13, 2012Control freaks often fear human sexuality for a very good reason: no one can control the sexuality of another. But our sexuality is the oldest, wisest and best part of ourselves and although it will not be controlled by anyone, it can be intelligently managed by everyone. The sexual futurist community is not about predicting…
Am I Normal…er…Sexually Speaking?
January 10, 2012Never talking to others about what we’re thinking often leads us to conclude little more than nonsense. But sexual futurists are learning from a global conversation, free from the usual constraints of threats, coercion or social stigma. The results: a more informed, wiser and more compassionate people. When it comes to sex the world is…
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