From article:
“…Sex & Lovers: A Practical Guide, has just come out in the UK and there is quite a buzz about it – it is The Joy of Sex for the young generation. Only it is much more explicit – which, for some, is a problem. In these porn-obsessed times, is it really the moment […]
When your job hinges on how well you talk to people, you learn a lot about how to have conversations — and that most of us don’t converse very well. Celeste Headlee has worked as a radio host for decades, and she knows the ingredients of a great conversation: Honesty, brevity, clarity and a […]
From Berkeley Science Review:
Humans are great consumers of stories. We are fascinated with them and storytelling is a dominating force in many forms of media, engaging people from all demographics. Stories resonate with us and have the power to profoundly change our perceptions of the inner machinations of the world around us.
“Storytelling…[is] knowing your punchline, […]
“… the Instagram/Hipstamatic/Snapseed etc filters are the antithesis of creativity. They make all pictures look the same. They require no thought or creative input: one click and you’re done. ”
Makes me wonder if all literacy, not just visual, will go down this lazy one-click path.
Can you apply an app to unimaginative and poorly-constructed sentences?
This article […]
From the article in the NY Times:
Today sex is a great paradox in many countries of the Arab world: One acts as though it doesn’t exist, and yet it determines everything that’s unspoken. Denied, it weighs on the mind by its very concealment. Although women are veiled, they are at the center of our connections, […]
While I am against censorship, I am also concerned about many of the issues raised here in this article, particularly the effect this is having on young minds…
From an article about a new documentary:
When eighteen-year-old Jake had his first sexual experience three years ago, he believed all the readily-available porn he watched had prepared him […]
From article:
One of the big ongoing misconceptions we have is that sex might be something that happens in our bodies – when, of course, sex is overwhelmingly an intellectual business rooted in the mind. Orgasm is a psychological phenomenon.
Perhaps nothing proves this so well as the business of sexting, a fascinating and deeply creative activity […]
From article:
The advent of widespread Internet has drastically altered every society that has gained access to it. However, this new world of nearly endless connection has started to interrupt the foundation of communication—that of face-to-face connection and interaction….
The next time you are in a restaurant or any other public space, take a look around at […]
Could the web now be changing the very nature of the relationship between the sexes?
Dr Catherine Hakim is a pioneering British social scientist and author.
Currently, she is Professorial Research Fellow at Civitas, the London think tank.
From Amazon:
Gathering together the candid confessions of people who have played away using websites dedicated to married affairs, the ground-breaking […]
The original has been removed by me.
Why?
Yesterday I posted an excerpt from another blog with a clear link to that blog and now the ‘author’ of that post accuses me of plagiarism on twitter.
Huh?
After she sent me a rather insulting email, totally ignoring the fact that a twelve year old would see I took NO […]
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