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Currently reading The Horse in the City. Living Machines in the Nineteenth Century. Clay McShane and Joel A. Tarr. It's the second "horse book" the fi...

If you referencing biology, I'd count myself as more of a foundationalist or essentialist than a constructivist. For instance, I don't think sex roles...

I did not say that manners were more important than morals. I said "I generally favor morals over manners". In the judgement of people who value manne...

It is always difficult to grasp precisely what people did or didn't feel or do in historical periods to which we are not privy. Whether such a thing a...

I recommend that you set the dial on the time machine farther back than the 1950s. The 1950s were the nativity decade of beatniks, Hells Angels, rock ...

After many, many posts, reposts, and counterposts, what have you learned--or what remains confusing?

And that is a perfectly reasonable position to take. You are entitled to hold in high regard people who master their desires, if you so wish. I too th...

Get thee to a monastery ASAP -- any one that will have you.

Could you give us a sample of advertising "sex as good for health" or "a way to get people interested in sex"? If you think I was saying that, you are...

Advertising and commercial television are not urging you to have sex promiscuously, monogamously, or at all. To think that all the advertising one enc...

Damn.

How long did you live with them? Details, please.

Sooner or later everybody wants to murder annoying ppl. Furthermore, you misspelled 'aggressive'.

I did tell Genghis. He said there was a lot more to it than just sex.

The power that allegedly accrues to the sexually dominant or proficient is grossly overestimated.

Children need age-appropriate information about human sexuality -- particularly their own sexuality. This does not mean, obviously, that 10 year olds ...

I'd say, rather, that it's quite a failure of society to not require parents "to be always there, watching, directing, and supervising children". I do...

As Jerry Seinfeld observed: "When sex is good, it's terrific; and when it is bad it's still OK."

Sex and the collapse of the World Trade Center bldg.--why not? I grew up in a vacuum of information about sex, sexual imagery, sexual content, sexual ...

At last! The admission that explains your views. When it comes to the healthy sex drives of 3.5 billion men, you don't know what you are talking about...

They were here at the beginning and they are still here. Most species have long, long, long since disappeared. They will be here long after everything...

Your strenuous arguments against people having sex in anything but the pristine confines of a lasting monogamous relationship is clearly a form of sub...

"Neurosis" and "society" are a combo package. In order to construct society we have to limit our individual drives, urges, aspirations, and appetites....

the difference between bacteria and sexually reproducing plants and animals begins with the difference between Eukaryotic Cells vs. Prokaryotic Cells....

Really! I find it hard to believe myself, sometimes. Other times, not so much.

Right on! as we used to say. One of the causes of the neo-freudian Wilhelm Reich's downfall was that he advocated for the right of juveniles to have h...

It's always possible that you are telling yourself a crock of shit. All of us do that at one time or another. If something happened a long time ago th...

Exactly. You can dither over the question of whether the apple is actually red or green till the cows come home, but such dithering yields little of v...

Do you want us to discuss your personal sexual feelings? I'd be more than happy to -- your lack of sex is a fascinating topic, and I would love to mak...

Is it idolized? Is "the West" a uniform, billion+ person sex-worshiping fertility cult? I think not. Most people do not engage in anything remotely as...

It is a good discussion and the OP accidentally demonstrated how a possibly fake news story can be taken for real news by an intelligent and earnest r...

Worry about a deeper conspiracy. Bogus news stories have been popping up for a long time. What is different is that the Internet is perfectly position...

There is. You just flunked it.

I thought M-Theory had made up the story himself--curses, foiled again. However, I am sure that had he elected to write such a story, it would have be...

Maybe this forum needs a "building collapses on annoying person" button.

Have you heard that song by the Fugs (1960s) "Wide Wide River"? (gospel sound) River of shit, River of shit, Flow on, flow on, river of shit, Right fr...

Do we need to worry about sensitive terminology here? "Dull normal" might be less hurtful to women who whelped really stupid bastards.

I am concerned that there might be a factual contradiction in your otherwise valuable report: First you state that ... Then you state that ... There i...

Are you saying this monster didn't even make up his own trolling nonsensical baloney? He copied somebody else's? Incredibly OUTRAGEOUS.

No, no Hanover. Don't put yourself down. What you need is an in-house Climate Wonk. Get rid of the lawn and pool boys--also the housekeeper, you can't...

If you aren't entrenched enough, here is a tool that will help. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e5/Glock_Feldspaten.jpg It can also b...

No.

No.

As I understand it (not well at all) the relationship between the ozone hole and climate warming is rather complex. CFCs are a green house gas, yes? I...

Why must renewables be unanimously adopted by all G20 nations? Why, if one backs out, does this prevent the other 19 from continuing to benefit?

You might be surprised to hear that the scientific record supporting global warming is not and has not been kept a secret. You don't have to subscribe...

Here's some evidence from the little ice age: Hendrick Avercamp (1585–1634) painted this picture of an ice skating party at a time when Dutch waterway...

The Dow Jones Industrial Average may be almost at 20k, but the DJIA is not the same as the economy. Stock markets are speculative, and there is a some...

I don't buy this theory that we are so encapsulated that how we respond to other people's actions is purely a matter of our own choices. — Bitter Cran...

I don't buy this theory that we are so encapsulated that how we respond to other people's actions is purely a matter of our own choices. Because we ar...