by Carl Howard | Feb 13, 2012 | Biases and Fallacies, Blog Topics, Medicine, Mind, Psychology and Consciousness, Science and Skepticism, Sex, Society
…is (in my opinion) a ridiculous organisation at whose core is sex-negative pseudoscience. I can’t remember how I stumbled onto their website, I think it was from looking at the keywords used to find the blog. But it’s quite shocking to see a viewpoint that’s so...
by Carl Howard | Mar 2, 2011 | Biases and Fallacies, Blog Topics, Ethics, Philosophy, Sex
My 2.5 year old post on consensual incest continues to be the most popular post I’ve ever done. It’s drawn in a huge number of comments, probably because it’s now #5 in Google for [consensual incest] and #1 for [consensual sibling incest]. For the same reasons many of...
by Carl Howard | Oct 26, 2010 | Atheism and Religion, Blog Topics, Blogging Jewish Law, Feminism and LGBT, Sex
Now that I’ve done the pre-pre-intro, the pre-intro and the intro, time to actually start blogging some Jewish law! There are a number of cases of exceptionalism that run across different religions. One that I looked at a year ago is the idea that “my religion’s not a...
by Carl Howard | Sep 28, 2009 | Blog Topics, Evolution and Biology, Philosophy, Science and Skepticism, Sex
Laura Schlesinger once said: “If you’re gay or a lesbian, it’s a biological error that inhibits you from relating normally to the opposite sex” (Source). This created a lot of uproar, but it got me thinking about whether she could “technically” be right (despite her...
by Carl Howard | Oct 10, 2008 | Blog Topics, Ethics, Philosophy, Sex
Necrophilia should be legalised because we don’t have enough organ donors. I’m serious, bear with me. Organ donation rates are abysmal in countries that require people to opt in. Most choose the default (not opting in). Not even from laziness but because people have...
by Carl Howard | Jul 29, 2008 | Biases and Fallacies, Blog Topics, Ethics, Feminism and LGBT, Sex
Not bisexuals who are agnostic; the agnosticism (or rather denialism) about the existence of bisexuals. I’m constantly amazed people still deny this. To me it’s not different to denialism of Copernicanism, evolution, global warming, relativity, AIDS etc. Except unlike...
