Comments on: Daily Kos: sex and politics, there’s no shame in that

By: Ckazaal

Ckazaal — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 19:27:49 +0000

An intriguing article. Thanks for the link.

It seems to me that those of us who are more open about our sexuality do enjoy throwing our hands up in the air at the more repressed folks, decrying them and asking them WHY OH WHY? But the hypocrisy is hardly surprising. I think there are very few out there for whom the taboo is not titillating. We want what we cannot have, what we’re not supposed to have, what it’s oh-so-very-wrong to have. We are a nation born out of Puritanism. Is it really any wonder that denial of our true natures is so prevalent?

I suppose having frank, open conversations about the subject is the best way to go about fixing this. But I’m not entirely convinced we’ll be happy when everyone in the world loves and accepts everyone else. If what I want in the bedroom isn’t naughty anymore, will I still get wet?

By: MT

MT — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 05:43:32 +0000

“Eight of the top 10 pornography consuming states gave their electoral votes to John McCain in last year’s presidential election – Florida and Hawaii were the exceptions. While six out of the lowest 10 favoured Barack Obama.”

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16680-porn-in-the-usa-conservatives-are-biggest-consumers.html

You can take my porn from my cold dead grasp…

By: Yuandme

Yuandme — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 03:25:03 +0000

Unbelievable!

By: Mark A. Kenworthy

Mark A. Kenworthy — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 01:48:05 +0000

An excellent bottom smack at collective social hypocrisy. I surfed over to the full article, read it with a nodding head, and then noticed something. Towards the end of the piece, a quote from David Brooks, an Op-Ed colunist for the New York Times was used to bolster Angry Mouse’s point, with the following statement from Mr. Brooks assuring us all that

“This isn’t just sermonizing. This is the age of research, so there’s data to back this up.”

Hmmmm.

Was it not just two posts ago that a very rabidly angry young woman verbally and visually chastised you to do some ‘research’, implying that there is some sort of research out there in science land to back up her strongly felt vitriol? I would have to watch the video again to pinpoint the precise statements to that effect, but my testicles just re-descended from that the first viewing, so I’m not anxious to experience that again.

So what is this ‘data’ whereof these people speak? Mr. Brooks tells of ‘Teams of Researchers’ backing up his viewpoint, but we never get a link or resource to check for ourselves. Ms. Ashley-Anne (What I really want is for Violet to hold me down and paddle me until I squeal, which is why I acted like a poorly behaving sub to get her attention) Thompson starts regaling us with strange ‘facts’ concerning dopamine levels in the brain and problems with addiction. This implies that their is research here as well, resources of which that are also sadly missing in her YouTube demagoguery.

I suspect that I already know the answer to this, and you probably do too, but frankly if I handed these unsubstantiated claims to any reasonably decent college professor, I most likely would have to take the course over again.

Keep up the good work Violet, the world needs you.