Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

Category: Sex, Love, Lust

  • How to Make Your Penis Go Away in the Eyes of the Law: Identify as a Woman!

    'Karen' White is a man sporting a healthy, nature-made penis. In 2003 and 2016 'she' put the organ in question to work in the rape of two different women. So of course 'she' ended up in a women's prison where — you guessed it — 'she' sexually assaulted women, not 'women,' women. Rod Dreher reports…

  • Why There Probably Won’t Be a Serious Inquiry into Priestly Pederasty

    Steven Hayward: Such an inquiry would require journalists to probe into matters that run afoul of liberal orthodoxy today. It is one thing to probe into bad behavior from unpopular and easily demonized cardinals. Blowing open a cover-up is standard Watergate Journalism 101. It’s another thing to open the door to uncomfortable questions about sexual…

  • Gender is a Social Construct — Except When It’s Not

    Heather Mac!

  • When Did Sex Begin?

    In 1963.  Or at least so we hear from Philip Larkin in his Annus Mirabilis.  It was indeed a remarkable year.  I was but a boy in grade school, but old enough so that I now remember all those wonderful songs and not so wonderful events such as the Profumo scandal in Britain.  What ever happened to sex…

  • Would Don Juan Approve of Bill Cosby?

    Drugging a woman to have sex with her takes all the sport out of the chase.

  • 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.

  • When Physicists Get Physical: A Tale of Sex and Scientism

    Allegedly, Lawrence Krauss is a sexual predator. I'll leave it to you to decide which is worse, his philosophical incompetence or his sexual predation. Both are forms of seduction, one cerebral, the other carnal.

  • Shakespeare on the Fire Down Below

    My favorite Oregonian luthier, Dave Bagwill, sends this for our delectation: PROSPERO (to FERDINAND)    Look thou be true. Do not give dalliance Too much the rein. The strongest oaths are straw To th' fire i' th' blood. Be more abstemious, Or else, goodnight your vow.   The Tempest, Act 4, Sc. 1 Dave's emphasis. Bob Seger expatiates…

  • Abortion and the Wages of Concupiscence Unrestrained

    The 'pro-choice' movement, to use the polite euphemism, is fueled by concupiscence.  Not entirely, of course. To what extent, then? One naturally wants the pleasures of sexual intercourse without any consequences. One seeks cost-free indulgence in the most intense sensuous pleasure known to man. Unrestricted abortion on demand is a convenient remedy to an inconvenient…

  • Word of the Day: Cack-Handed

    British. 1. Left-handed; 2. clumsy, awkward. See here. Example: “Rape is a crime, but trying to seduce someone, even persistently or cack-handedly, is not – nor is men being gentlemanly a macho attack,” said the letter published in the newspaper Le Monde. I'm with Catherine Deneuve and Christina Hoff Sommers on this one.  Real women…

  • A Liberal’s Notion of Self-Restraint

  • Tavis Smiley Too? ‘Inappropriate’ Sexual Conduct?

    The witch hunt is on and the Left eats its own.  PBS has suspended distribution of Smiley's late-night talk show. I don't think much of Smiley's opinions, you understand, but I fear that we may end up like the Soviet Union or China under the Cultural Revolution. Don't tell me it can't happen here; just…

  • Is Anal Bleaching Racist?

    It would have to be, right? Logically prior question: what is anal bleaching? Filed under: Decline of the West Related articles Maverick Philosopher: Latest Georgetown University Outrage Is Canada Committing Cultural Suicide? Maverick Philosopher: Should There be University Courses on Beat Generation Authors? Maverick Philosopher: Hugh Hefner's Legacy Maverick Philosopher: Will the Culture War Issue…

  • Infatuation

    Infatuation is one part sexual desire, one part restlessness, and one part misdirected love of the Good.

  • Clinton Redux

    Here: In the past few days a number of notable liberals have decided to take allegations of sexual assault against former president Bill Clinton seriously. Let’s just say that discarding the Clintons when they’re no longer politically useful to retroactively grab the higher moral ground isn’t exactly an act of heroism. But if we’re going…