Category: Sex, Love, Lust
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Book Lust
The old man's libido may be on the wane, but this man's book lust remains as stiff-standing as ever. I'm reading along in Anthony Kenny's Aquinas on Being and I find a footnote in which he praises a certain Hermann Weidemann's article contained in a certain anthology. I think, "Oh boy, when I am in…
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Can One Copulate One’s Way to Chastity?
John B. writes, I'm a regular reader of your blog and I've written very occasionally, but not for a few years. Here's another comment. I enjoy your periodic return to the question of whether one can philosophize one's way to a release from philosophy. But I think that, to split hairs, you're wrong to say…
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Augustine was Right
It is our love of the Unchanging Light, a love unconscious of itself and grotesquely diffracted into creatures, that animates our inordinate love of them.
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St. Valentine’s Day at the Oldies: Love and Murder
We'll start with murder. David Dalton (Who Is That Man? In Search of the Real Bob Dylan, Hyperion 2012, pp. 28-29, hyperlinks added!): Most folk songs had grim, murderous content (and subtext). In Pretty Polly a man lures a young girl from her home with the promise of marriage,and then leads the pregnant girl to an already-dug…
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Of Palate and Penis
The control of the one aids in the control of the other, and the control of the other in the control of the one. The Desert Fathers knew this, and enjoined the control of both.
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The Mighty Tetrad: Money, Power, Sex, and Recognition
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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Divine Light, Sex, Alcohol, and Kerouac
If there is divine light, sexual indulgence prevents it from streaming in. Herein lies the best argument for continence. The sex monkey may not be as destructive of the body as the booze monkey, but he is more destructive of the spirit. You may dismiss what I am saying here either by denying that there…
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Kadın erkeğin şeytanıdır
"Woman is man's devil." (Turkish proverb) Never underestimate the power of concupiscence to derange, disorient, and delude. When Spanish bishop Xavier Novell resigned last month, the Roman Catholic Church cited strictly personal reasons without going into detail. It has now emerged in Spanish media that he fell in love with a woman who writes Satanic-tinged…
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Can Mere Thoughts be Morally Wrong?
A Substack meditation inspired by Matthew 5.27-28
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Sounds Incoherent to Me
Here: “I don’t want to have sex with anybody and I probably won’t ever have sex,” says Benoit over Zoom, although she does explain that the key point here is sexual relations with others: she does masturbate. If she masturbates, then she has sex with herself in which case she does want to have sex…
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The Eclipse of Sex by the Rise of Gender
Ponder this
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Dennis Prager on Liberalism, Leftism, and Race
Here at Substack. IS IT REASONABLE TO BE A SEX REALIST BUT A RACE IRREALIST LIKE PRAGER? If not, should one affirm the biological reality of both, deny the biological reality of both, or affirm race realism and sex irrealism?
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The Lust of the Eyes and the Pride of Life
This just over the transom from T. O. with my responses: I am wondering if you'd like to tackle this question prompted by your latest post on the sensus divinitatis. Suppose a man indulges his sensual desires and passions (especially sexual passion) without restraint when he is young. Then, as he ages, he realizes…
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On Engagement with Females: The Anti-Biden Rule
With the exception of wives, sisters, and girlfriends, accept and return hugs, but don't initiate them. A gentleman is cognizant of the power differential between the sexes, and does not impose himself physically or psychologically. And while the scent of a woman can can carry a powerful erotic charge, a gentleman does not creep up…
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Love and Money
Don't say that money is the root of all evil. That's just silly. Say something that is true: The inordinate love of money is the root of SOME evils. Point proven in Radix Omnium Malorum. ……………………………….. Addendum (7/17). Claude Boisson sends the following: As you already know, your interpretation is exactly that of some careful…