So I first heard of the movie Ex Machina when I read a review (by Chris DiCarlo) in Humanist Perspectives—and was so disgusted that I wrote a letter to the editor. Why? Because the reviewer had revealed his own misogyny by failing to address the elephant in the room: the fact that the body the …
Category: sex
May 28
The Hook (Up) – a short script by Peg Tittle
FADE IN:
INT. BAR — NIGHT
Crowded bar scene. MAN and WOMAN do the standard flirting thing, he buys her a drink, they dance, then exit. Their dialogue isn’t important — the bar’s too loud for us to hear much anyway. But it’s clear that both are willing to engage in the sex that follows.
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Feb 22
Gibbon’s Decline and Fall, Sheri Tepper
Although I read this fantastic novel years ago, I was recently reminded of it by Judith A. Little’s Feminist Philosophy and Science Fiction: utopias and dystopias.
At the end of the novel, five options for human reproduction are presented:
Jun 28
How many times?
Men are incredibly selfish and irresponsible. Every time they have sexual intercourse without a condom, they prove it.
Because every time they have sex without a condom, they risk making someone else’s life a living hell for twenty years (that’s what it’s like to be a parent against one’s will). All for ten minutes of …
Apr 14
Why Do Men Seek Arousal?
So I’m reading Robert Jensen (Getting Off: Pornography and the end of masculinity), and he says porn is intended to provide sexual arousal.
Sexual arousal? Not sexual satisfaction?
If you’re not aroused in the first place, why would you intentionally try to get aroused?
Because then you’ll just have to find a way to deal …
Dec 27
What’s wrong with being a slut?
slut, n. Slovenly woman, slattern
slovenly, a. Personally untidy or dirty, careless and lazy, or unmethodical
slattern, n. Sluttish woman
Not what my mother meant when she called me a slut. For whatever else I am, I am tidy, clean, careful, industrious, and methodical. Quite methodical. So just what did she mean? I don’t know. …
Aug 31
Sex and Gender Conflated
I recently spent some time at another blog (someone had linked to one of my posts and invited me to the discussion), and I discovered that several of the discussants conflated gender and sex. I was shocked. (And in fact, that possibility so didn’t occur to me that I continued the surreal discussion for some …
Books by Peg Tittle
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