Category: Sex, Love, Lust
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Two Types of Humanity: The Mystic and the Profligate
Julian Green, Diary 1928-1957, entry of 30 December 1940, p. 104: Does our body never weary of desiring the same things? [. . .] There are only two types of humanity . . . the mystic and the profligate, because both fly to extremes , searching, each is his own way, for the absolute; but,…
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Should Calvin University Divorce its Denomination?
This will interest our friend Trudy, a graduate of Calvin College.
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Shakespeare on Lust
Sonnet 129: Th'expense of spirit in a waste of shame Th' expense of spirit in a waste of shame Is lust in action; and till action, lust Is perjured, murd'rous, bloody, full of blame, Savage, extreme, rude, cruel, not to trust, Enjoyed no sooner but despisèd straight, Past reason hunted; and, no sooner had Past…
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Saturday Night at the Oldies: Billboard Top Ten in October, 1963 at the Height of the Profumo Affair
Some of us are old enough to remember John Profumo and his entanglement with sex kitten Christine Keeler, which eventually lead to Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's resignation in October of 1963: At a party at the country estate of Lord Astor on July 8, 1961, British Secretary of State for War John Profumo, then a rising…
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The Mighty Tetrad
Money, power, sex, and recognition form the Mighty Tetrad of human motivators, the chief goads to action here below. But none of the four is evil or the root of all evil. People thoughtlessly and falsely repeat, time and again, that money is the root of all evil. Why not say that about power, sex,…
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A Cure for Infatuation
One of the best is marriage. Substack latest.
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You Know You Love Her . . .
. . . when you find charming in her what would be annoying in others.
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How to Tell the Impostor RCC from the Real Thing
The Roman Catholic Church with Bergoglio at its head is an impostor church. So William Kilpatrick asks: . . . how can one tell the imposter Church from the Church established by Christ? Although there are several indicators, the main giveaway, I believe, can be found in differing attitudes toward sin. The true Church takes…
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Like a Moth to the Flame
Top o' the Stack: A Saturday sermon of sorts on romantic folly.
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Pride?
What are you proud of? Your paraphilias? Is that what your 'pride flag' signifies? Does the plus sign at the end of LGBTQ+ signify the inclusion of every paraphilia? Might that be taking 'inclusion' too far? Is every focus of erotic interest legitimate? Should every mode of (what has traditionally been considered to be) deviant…
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The Double Denial by the ‘Woke’
It is not unreasonable to maintain that there is no God and that nature alone exists. But suppose you take it a step further and deny nature as well. Then you are in the precincts of 'woke' lunacy. Call it the Double Denial. One way to deny nature is by denying that the biotic underpins…
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Divine Light, Sex, Alcohol, and Kerouac
Substack latest.
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From Bad to Worse
His johnson became his dousing rod, but it led him not to the waters of life, but to the fleshpots. This after abandoning organized religion and its hypocrisies, but also its curbs and checks on destructive behavior. So he went from bad to worse. He started on down that Lost Highway.
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Questions about Pronouns, Sex, and ‘Wokism’
Elliot Crozat writes, During my visit, one of our conversation topics was pronoun usage. If I recall, on one of the hikes, you gave the example "He who hesitates is lost” and asked about the function of ‘He.’ You then said that this pronoun seems to function as a universal quantifier such that, for any x,…
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Left, Right, Gender, and Sex
There is nothing in the graphic below to disagree with, although more could be said. But one quibble: The correct word is not 'gender,' but 'sex.' Gender is a grammatical category first and foremost. But it is not unreasonable to allow a widening of the term to cover certain social roles that one's sex fits…