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Category Archives: Sex
Psychologist Roy Baumeister’s New Book: ‘Is There Anything Good About Men? How Cultures Flourish by Exploiting Men’
Roy Baumeister was on Dennis Prager’s radio show yesterday talking about his new book. Roy: “There’s a lot of opinion that men would be best if they just ended up more like women. I’m advancing the different but equal thesis. … Continue reading
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Tagged Dennis Prager, female sex drive, religion and science, roy baumeister, sexual predators, women scientists
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If I Turned A Woman Into A Lesbian
Watch the whole show: I discuss the weekly Torah portion with Rabbi Rabbs every Monday at 7pm PST on my live cam and YouTube. This week’s parsha is Yitro.
Wrestling With My Sexuality
Professor D.G. Myers writes: What I am suggesting is that the two treatments of dialogue in the contemporary novel—the scrupulous mimicry of everyday speech and the studied exclusion of differing points of view—are connected at the level of basic assumptions … Continue reading
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Tagged atomic weapons, hiroshima and nagasaki, luke ford, new novel, reading luke, robb forman dew
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Exploitation Korean-Style
The Los Angeles Times reports: Reporting from Seoul — — She was a young actress with designs on mega-stardom. But to realize her dreams, Jang Ja-yeon was resigned to take her place in the seamy realm of the South Korean … Continue reading
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Tagged casting couch, dozen tv, film actresses, hot chicks, tv sitcom, young actress
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Is Nudity Humiliating?
Most of the Jews in the Holocaust died naked. It was important to the Nazis to humiliate Jews, not just kill them. This is akin to male desire. There’s a little Nazi in all men. They want to strip women … Continue reading
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Tagged jews in the holocaust, live cam, male desire, rabbs, weekly torah portion
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What Do Men Want?
On his radio show Wednesday, Dennis Prager said: A man needs most from a woman in a relationship is to be admired. Not loved. You love a puppy, but you don’t admire a puppy. You love your children, but you … Continue reading
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Tagged Dennis Prager, puppy, radio show, relationship
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How Should A Man Relate To Jenn Sterger?
I’ve spent my morning looking at photos of Jenn Sterger and I have come to some very profound conclusions. I’m wondering if she wanted to receive those intimate texts from Brett Favre? I’ve spent a long time looking at photos … Continue reading
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Tagged brett favre, deadspin, Dennis Prager, family newspapers, looking at photos, new york jets, religious guy, theological insights, torah scholars
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Question of the Day:
When is it appropriate for an NFL quarterback to send iPhone photos of his erection to a young lady? Lumpy emails: “When she is his urologist.”
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The Case For Concubines
In his third lecture on Rabbi Chalom Messas for Torah in Motion, Rabbi Marc B. Shapiro says: [In 2006], Zvi Zohar in Israel, an expert in Sephardic halacah, just came out with a book on 20th Century Sephardic rabbis. He … Continue reading
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Tagged chalom, jewish view, Marc B. Shapiro, ramban, shabbos table, torah in motion
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