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Does How We Lose Our Virginity Shape Our Entire Sex Life? In a Word, No.

Posted in ...and everything else, Bioethics on January 29th, 2013 No Comments »

This morning’s sensationalist headlines are claiming that new research, published in the Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy, says that how we lose our virginity will shape our entire sex life. For more than one of us, I’m sure, that’s the kind of headline that makes eyebrows climb and perhaps a slight whispered “oh, god, [...]

a sponge must have substance to absorb

Posted in Academics on March 21st, 2010 No Comments »

I’m reading Barrington Moore’s Moral Purity and Persecution in History, having started it as a bit of “light” nighttime reading a few evening’s back. (Yes, I know, I need to work on my ideas of what constitutes good before bed reading, especially since I find myself getting up to grab copies of various Bibles to [...]