Online Disinhibition Effect
But have you ever stopped to consider why people feel invincinble online? Or why they get so angry? A study in the US helps explain half of it.
Arthur Santana, a communications professor at the University of Houston, analysed hundreds of comments on stories from the Los Angeles Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Houston Chronicle […]
Quote of the Day – May 1 2015
You Have To Be Kidding, Right?
Universal has released a ‘teaser’ for the sequel to Fifty Shades of Grey. Always thought the title was a poor pun actually. If Grey has more than two dimensions, I clearly wasn’t paying attention.
Then again, I will repeat what I wrote once before… I think the novel and the film are rubbish but I loved […]
Quote of the Day 2018

Sex contains all…
Bodies, souls, meanings, proofs, purities, delicacies, results, promulgations, songs, commands, health, pride, the maternal mystery, the seminal milk
All hopes, benefactions, bestowals
All the passions, loves, beauties, delights of the earth
All the governments, judges, gods, follow’d persons of the earth
These are contain’d in sex, as parts of […]
Von Trier’s Nymphomaniac and the oddity of real sex on screen
From the article:
“The reality of sex on screen makes many people feel awkward and uncomfortable, and not merely the actors. But what is it about sex – real sex – that so unsettles in film? When employed in the name of “art”, why does unsimulated sex burst the bubble we buy into when we watch […]
Quote of the Day – April 29 2015
“No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic feeling, even if it be only the faintest shadow – and if it does not do so it is bad art and false morals”
Kenneth Clark
Women are attracted to men with deep voices, but only for a fling: study
Broad shoulders, chiselled abs and muscular arms can attract attention from the opposite sex, but it’s a man’s deep voice that helps seal the deal, a new Ontario study suggests.
Women are drawn to men with deep voices, finding them attractive but only for short flings because these male suitors also come off as cheaters, according […]
Quote of the Day – April 28 2015
“It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.”
Oscar Wilde
‘You’re normal!’ is science’s battle cry in the fight for sexual liberation
Is hard data necessary to confirm what women already know about sex? Yep – as Emily Nagoski’s new book shows, we need all the allies we can get.
From the article :
“It’s 54 years since the arrival of the pill in Australia liberated women’s sexuality from reproduction. 45 years since Germaine Greer dared women to taste […]







