Category: Pornography
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Callicles and the Marquis de Sade
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‘Porn Literacy’ Class for Teens
We are one sick society getting sicker with every passing day. Rod Dreher registers an eloquent protest: What they’re doing is “good” in the sense that a public health educator teaching teenage junkies how to shoot heroin without killing themselves is good. The whole thing is evil to the core. We live in a degenerate…
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Al Franken’s Porn-O-Rama
What does it say about the Democrat Party that it would support a scumbag like Franken for the U. S. Senate? Franken's Porn-O-Rama is no Satire More here (Newsweek), here (Atlantic), and here (WashPo). No, I won't link to the 'Puffington Host.'
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Was Hefner a Condition of the Possibility of Post-’60s Feminism?
Damon Linker: By mainstreaming pornography in Playboy magazine, and valorizing the pursuit of (male, heterosexual) hedonistic pleasure with his highly publicized playboy lifestyle, Hefner made a singularly important contribution to the overthrow of received norms of sexual morals that made modern (post-1960s) feminism possible. But he also accomplished this overthrow by exploiting women, reducing them to sex…
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Hugh Hefner Dead at 91
There is so much to say. For now, just this: If you have devoted your whole soul to the enjoyment and promotion of the pleasures of the flesh, then you had better hope that the soul dissolves with the dissolution of the body. Contemporaries will think that of course it does, but it is not…
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Callicles Anticipates De Sade
At Gorgias 492, tr. Helmbold, the divine Plato puts the following words into the mouth of Callicles: A man who is going to live a full life must allow his desires to become as mighty as may be and never repress them. When his passions have come to full maturity, he must be able to…
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Chris Hedges on Pornography
Yesterday I said that there are some decent liberals. Having listened to a good chunk of a three-hour C-SPAN 2 interview with Chris Hedges this morning, I would say he is a good example of one. On some issues he agrees with conservatives, pornography being one of them. Both liberals and libertarians have to lot…