Category Archives: sex

Packing (Dildoes) on Campus

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Dildos descend on UT Austin in ‘Cocks Not Glocks’ protest of guns on campus (mysanantonio.com) In honour of the release of my first book, 50 Critical Thinking Exercises for Humanities Classes (and yes, I’m gonna self-promote the everloving crap out of it, so get used to lots of gratuitous links and mentions), I thought I’d explore a news story from this past week that ties in directly to one of the exercises in my book: The promised protest of open carry laws on Texas college campuses this past…

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On Cloppers and Clopping

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The original Star Trek television series was the backdrop for a lot of the bonding I did with Mom when I was young. Back before we had cable, reruns of the original Star Trek were one of the few things my mother made a point of catching whenever they were on, because she’s always had a huge crush on William Shatner dating back to before he even appeared on The Twilight Zone. For my part, I identified a lot with Spock, if only because he was the closest…

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Sit On My Face and Tell Me You Love Free Speech

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The UK’s sexist new pornography restrictions  aren’t just an act of state censorship, but could be the first step towards something even worse (The Independent) U.K. Sex Workers Sitting on Each Other’s Faces for Their Right to Fist (Gawker) If you study human sexuality for any length of time, particularly fetish culture, you quickly gain an appreciation for the seemingly limitless ways in which we humans experience erotic enjoyment. I’ve often argued that the infamous “Rule 34” of the Internet, that if something exists then…

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Coming Out

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FAQs for Kink Coming Out Day (kinkcomingoutday.com) My name is Sean Shannon, and I am kinky. This is not news to most of you, I am sure. Although I was quiet about my kink for a few years between finishing graduate school and starting to promote The Prostitutes of Lake Wobegon, I’ve been relatively open about identifying as kinky since I first got on the Internet back in 1994. (Good grief, twenty years next year. I’m old.) That was in the wake of Madonna’s Sex book (and associated…

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Sports, Still as Stupid as Ever

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Why can’t Jason Collins find an NBA job? (sfgate.com) Deadspin raises the blacklisting question about Chris Kluwe (blogs.citypages.com) I won’t deny feeling quite a bit of pleasure earlier this year when NBA player Jason Collins, shortly after his season was over, came out in Sports Illustrated as a homosexual. Coming on the heels of the military finally allowing non-heterosexuals to serve openly (and the colossal non-story integration was, with only two chaplains resigning in protest instead of the hundreds of thousands of soldiers predicted by the…

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