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Category Archives: Sex
Is Donald Sterling An Anomaly Among Jews?
A 1994 University of Chicago sex survey, the most comprehensive of its kind, found that Jews have more sex partners than any other ethnic and religious group, more than twice as many as Catholics (who have the fewest of any … Continue reading
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The Atlantic: At Group Sex Parties, Strict Rules Make for Safe Spaces
How do you create a place where nobody gets hurt? You make lots of rules. In traditional Jewish life, people usually know the rules and this creates a safe space. The same principle holds true for swinging. The Atlantic: Inside … Continue reading
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Does Promiscuity Make Women Happy?
From what I have seen, the ideal number of sexual partners for a lifetime is one. The more partners a person has, in general, the more screwed up they are. In my experience, the more sexual partners a woman, the … Continue reading
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Sex With Non-Jewish Women Vs Sex With Jewish Prostitutes
An easy way to see a difference between the Jewish and Christian approaches to sex is to contrast the Jewish state of Israel with Christian countries such as the United States when it comes to prostitution. Using a prostitute is … Continue reading
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How Big Of A Sin Is It For A Jewish Man To Be With A Non-Jewish Woman?
Marc B. Shapiro writes: The censorship of this responsum can only have one purpose, namely, so that people don’t learn about how some members of R. Stern’s community (the Hungarian hasidic world) are having sexual relations with non-Jewish women. What … Continue reading
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The Rantings Of The Santa Barbara Killer
Joe emails: If you notice, there is nothing sexual in his rantings. He may have been gay. He clearly was not heterosexual in the way I consider it. The woman he blamed for his troubles, Monette Moio, is in my … Continue reading
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Sex Trafficking Is Usually Of The Willing
I wrote about the sex industry for more than a decade and whenever I looked into it, “sexual slavery” on a large scale inevitably turned out to be consensual all round. Third worlders and second worlders and many first worlders … Continue reading
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Men Want One-Stop Shopping
Relationship expert (Understandmen.com) Alison Armstrong was on Dennis Prager’s radio show today. “Men want to be devoted to his mate and give her everything she desires. But his mate has to provide him with what he needs – admiration, nurturing, … Continue reading
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Do Sex Scandals Make Us Stupid?
If you’re not interested in sex scandals, you’re not interested in people, or do you claim you are interested in people except for when it comes to sex? If people don’t like talking about sex, they shouldn’t read the Bible … Continue reading
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Heavy Petting
Do Jews talk about heavy petting? That was an obsession in my Christian childhood, how very wrong it was. Then I left the church at 18 and I never heard anything more about heavy petting. Are children these days sufficiently … Continue reading
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