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Category Archives: Sex
Steve Sailer: Why Are Liberal Women More Likely to Report They’ve Been Sexually Harassed?
Zach Goldberg writes: “…the more one finds rape sexually appealing, the more likely one is to report an experience of workplace sexual harassment. Alcohol consumption and having a job where one is often alone with others is also somewhat predictive, … Continue reading
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‘I remember thinking his waning vitality could be used to my advantage’
From The Guardian: “As a 17-year-old student about to go to college, Ottessa Moshfegh approached a famous male writer for advice. He was willing to give it – in exchange for veneration… and sex.” I first became aware during the … Continue reading
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Mommy Bloggers, #MeToo, & The Incel Threat
* An Open Letter to John Brennan * NYT: ‘A French Novelist Imagined Sexual Dystopia. Now It’s Arrived.’ MP3. * From People magazine: Author Kelly Oxford, Who Started #NotOkay, Claims Her Ex-Husband Once Threw a Phone at Her Head Kelly … Continue reading
NYT: ‘A French Novelist Imagined Sexual Dystopia. Now It’s Arrived.’
Adam Kirsch writes for the New York Times: The sexual revolution of the 1960s, widely seen as a liberation movement, is better understood as the intrusion of capitalist values into the previously sacrosanct realm of intimate life. “Just like unrestrained … Continue reading
Vanity Fair: “OH MY GOD, THIS IS SO F—ED UP”: INSIDE SILICON VALLEY’S SECRETIVE, ORGIASTIC DARK SIDE
I wish there was an ethnic angle to this. Vanity Fair: Some of the most powerful men in Silicon Valley are regulars at exclusive, drug-fueled, sex-laced parties—gatherings they describe not as scandalous, or even secret, but as a bold, unconventional … Continue reading
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Jews, Women & The Ordeal Of Civility
Steve Sailer writes: Jews have taken on the role of society SuperEgo, while wanting to remain the Id in private. This is an unstable combination, has the high proportion of Jews have gotten in trouble attests. …When I was a … Continue reading
Having It Both Ways
Comments at Steve Sailer: * Men and women always had a libido but civilization existed to tame it and channel that libido into the socially useful institution of marriage and family – husband and wife could hump like bunnies and … Continue reading
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The Sexual Harassment Crisis
Comments at Steve Sailer: * Women want men to feel attracted to them. For a woman, it’s a huge self-esteem booster when a man finds her attractive. When a woman is attractive to a man, she also has power over … Continue reading
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Bobby Riggs, The Mafia and The Battle of the Sexes
I just watched the silly 2017 movie The Battle of the Sexes about the 1973 tennis match between Bobby Riggs and Billy Jean King. The movie never mentions that Bobby threw the match to satisfy his gambling debts. Instead, it … Continue reading
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‘Meet Your New Boss’
Claudine Ko writes about Dov Charney of American Apparel: After a month of watching Dov wheel and deal multimillion-dollar real estate, explain the minutiae of two-needle and blind hems, patronize full-service massage parlors before skipping over to an evening of … Continue reading