This issue of MAPP Magazine explores thriving sexuality, shifting narratives around reproductive health, and work in developing a comprehensive model of sexual well-being. This information epitomizes the emerging field of positive sexuality.| Positive Psychology News
Not all Christian Legal Centre cases go to the courts or are heard in the media – in fact, most people are able to resolve their situations before it gets to that stage. Here are three stories related to education which show how the Christian Legal Centre was able to aid and intervene in various ... The post Fighting for parents and schools: testimonies from education appeared first on Christian Concern.| Christian Concern
Ash Regan MSP’s Prostitution (Offences and Support) (Scotland) Bill is currently up for consideration by the Scottish Parliament. The bill would rebalance the law on prostitution, creating a new offence of paying for sexual acts while decriminalising soliciting. The Call for Views on the bill to change the law on prostitution in Scotland is currently ... The post Scottish prostitution bill – how to respond appeared first on Christian Concern.| Christian Concern
There are many conflicting accounts as to whether the Athenian statesman Alcibiades was a lover of Socrates. The Wikipedia page on Alcibiades' depiction in culture states: "Alcibiades also appears in several Socratic dialogues" In Plato's Symposium, Alcibiades "claims to be in love with Socrates." "Plato presents Alcibiades as a youthful student and lover of Socrates" The Wikipedia page on Socrates himself gives two conflicting pieces of evidence: "Some texts suggest that Socrates had love af...| Recent Questions - Skeptics Stack Exchange
It is often remarked that Lord Byron (often regarded as one of "the greatest British poets") had an incestuous relationship with his half-sister Augusta Leigh (eg here). However, other sources appear to regard this as a myth (eg here). Until recently, I presumed that this was something which we had insufficient of to confirm or deny. However, while reading the Wikipedia page on Lord Byron, I saw the following line: The biographer of Byron André Maurois who had access to the poet's archive, r...| Recent Questions - Skeptics Stack Exchange
Several sources claim that eating soy has an effect on estrogen levels (for example, Livestrong, American Cancer Society and sfgate). Some sources go further and say eating soy affects men's sex-drives: Soy foods lower your sex drive (Japanese housewives would feed more soy to their husbands to reduce their virility when they feared infidelity or pregnancy) Soy’s has also been proven to lead to infertility in males. Source: HealthLevelUp Does soy affect sex drive (via estrogen levels or oth...| Recent Questions - Skeptics Stack Exchange
This question has probably been asked by almost everyone at some point in their lives. But the answers we receive vary from "it is very good" to "it is very bad". I can understand that becoming obsessive about it is bad (in fact becoming obsessive about anything is bad). But this seems a psychological effect, not one that brings actual physical harm. Is there any definite evidence to say that it is good or bad ? By bad, I mean do we see any definite physical effects like impotency, nerve weak...| Recent Questions - Skeptics Stack Exchange
The loving union of persons in even the best marriage is imperfect, temporary, partial, and prone to failure. To expect more than mortal love from marriage is to put a strain upon it that it cannot, and was not intended, to bear.| Public Discourse
This background should prepare us for a more positive account of sexual morality that not only supports the right conclusions, but does so in a way that allows us to affirm the intrinsic goodness of sexual desire and sexual pleasure while connecting them to the great goods of marital friendship and procreation.| Public Discourse
Christian parents today are rowing hard against the current when it comes to sex and sexuality. Can you feel the pull of resistance? “Sex positive” messages of self-expression and sexual freedom seem to push and carry us and our children along like white-water rafts adrift in a swollen river. How do we climb out? How... The post Teach Your Kids to Be Truly Sex Positive appeared first on Harvest USA.| Harvest USA
The final image at the end of Stranger Things season 4. This post contains minor spoilers for all four seasons of Stranger Things, although they relate only to character arcs rather than the main plot-lines. One of the seminars I’ve run for years now for the undergraduate students who take our second-year team-taught module at Newcastle on histories of … Continue reading Don’t Bury Your Gays: Queer-Coding and Stranger Things| Laura Tisdall
I’ve been racing through my 20 Books of Summer partly because I went on a holiday with lots of long bus journeys and partly because a lot of them were NetGalley ARCs that publish in June or J…| Laura Tisdall
Pli: The Warwick Journal of Philosophy invites submissions for its thirty-eighth issue, which will explore how questions of gender and sexuality (and, more broadly, Women’s Studies and Feminis…| BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
By Gladys Lou Ayanna Dozier is an artist, writer, and scholar who approaches sex work as a sacred form of labour. For her, erotic labour is not just performed, it is studied, historicized…| Femme Art Review
man in my heart space / fresh-cut roses in her hands heart full of pain heart full of love you’re sitting crouched inside my ribcage warming your hands on my heart *** I felt you in there when …| world enough and time
Is a ‘pause’ what the Living in Love and Faith process needs now?| sharedconversations
Christian Concern has accused Westminster City Council of ‘indoctrinating’ Londoners and ‘breaching planning control’ after repeatedly rubber-stamping mass LGBTQI+ Pride flag displays without proper consultation on one of the most famous streets in the world. Will you sign our petition urging the Council to take the Pride Progress flags down and fly the Union Jack ...| Christian Concern
In today’s Muster, associate editor Robert Bland is joined by Andrew Donnelly to discuss his new book Confederate Sympathies: Same-Sex Romance, Disunion, and Reunion in the Civil War Era. Professor Donnelly is an assistant professor of English at the University of Memphis. His work has been supported by fellowships from the Boston Athenaeum, the Massachusetts … Read More Read More The post Andrew Donnelly, Confederate Sympathies, and the History of Same-Sex Romance during the Civil War Er...| The Journal of the Civil War Era
updated (bits in bold) 15 June 2025 Friday 6 June was ‘interesting’, in the ‘may you live in interesting times’ sense. I wasn’t at home but my phone kept registering messages. The first was drawing…| sharedconversations
Want to become irresistibly attractive? Body Language Expert Linda Clemons reveals secret techniques to boost your allure. Learn how confidence, eye contact, and subtle movements can make a lasting impression. Discover the power of the "wet voice" and enhance your communication without saying a word.| The Mindvalley Podcast With Vishen Lakhiani | Listen Now
This LGBTQ+ History Month, students explored the diverse landscape of identity in personal development lessons, recognising its many influences and the unique journeys individuals take in discovering who they are.| Brooklands Technical College
On January 20, the White House issued an executive order stating that the United States government will only recognize two sexes, male and female, as defined “at conception.” The ripple effect of this order will undoubtedly affect public schools, public libraries, and the literature that is shelved in both. Among the many harms it [...] The post NCAC Join Over 40 Organizations in Condemning Trump Administration’s Executive Order Targeting Transgender, Intersex, Nonbinary, and Gender-Non...| National Coalition Against Censorship
Now a psychotherapist and two sociologists from the Kinsey Institute have added new coal to the fire. Using a statistical method called path analysis on data based on the childhood social and sexual behavior of 979 male and female homosexuals and 477 male and female heterosexuals, Bell, Weinberg, and Hammersmith offer a consolation to guilty parents that earned front page attention in the New York Times:| Science for the People Archives
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Intimacy can be transformative, but what happens when we make it sacred? This episode dives into the raw, transformative power of sacred sexuality through the stories of three couples who’ve been through it all—breakups, reunions, and those messy, beautiful moments that define a relationship.| The Mindvalley Podcast With Vishen Lakhiani | Listen Now
Sexual intercourse was designed by God to unify a married couple and to further participate in God’s ongoing creation. Contents show 1. What is Marriage? 2. Sex in Marriage is a Sacramental Sign 3. Related Catholic Articles What is Marriage? Marriage is the union of a male and female for the rest of their lives. This […]| About Catholics
Andrew Goddard writes: What follows demonstrates a recent statement about PLF by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, is significantly misleading in relation to what the bishops have decided, what the church teaches on sexual ethics, who PLF is for, and what PLF offers. This development, contradicting and undermining past theological and legal advice as| Psephizo
Written by Yo-Ling Chen. The article discusses Taiwan’s anti-gender movement’s misuse of research to promote misinformation about public attitudes toward transgender rights. It focuses …| Taiwan Insight
Seldom have I read such a mindful, emotionally, intellectually, and politically mature and thought-provoking history of post-fascist Germany, which captured my attention from the acknowledgments [...] The post Entanglements and Contingencies of Queer Lives in Postwar Germany: In Prospect of a Different Future appeared first on The New Fascism Syllabus.| The New Fascism Syllabus
Marriage is intrinsically linked to sex so it is important that one has a good grasp of the role of sexual intercourse before one can delve into the topic of same-sex marriage. At the most fundamental level, a gay marriage is impossible because the same-sex couple can never consummate their marriage; they can never become […]| About Catholics
Marriage today faces a number of threats. Divorce, redefinition, and infidelity undermine the status and special importance of marriage in a society. Contents show 1. Divorce 2. Homosexual Unions 3. Infidelity 4. Related Catholic Articles Divorce Divorce threatens marriage by destroying the permanency of marriage. Marriage, as defined by the Catholic Church, is a life-long […]| About Catholics
Content watching pornstars do it in prone bone? Or are you ready to master this position and go from a simple fapper to a Kama Sutra sex god.| Tantric Academy
On July 12, 2023, ‘Doctor Ruth” died at age 96 of complications from a stroke that she first suffered a year before. She was a sex therapist and talk show host who at age 52 in 1980 started her radio show, “Sexually Speaking”, on WYNY-FM in New York City. The show became so popular that at age 56, she hosted several television programs on the Lifetime TV network such as “Good Sex! With Doctor Ruth Westheimer.”| Dr. Gabe Mirkin on Fitness, Health and Nutrition
If you want to apply the same driving force to your life goals as to getting laid, then you NEED to read this article about sexual transmutation.| Tantric Academy
Learn the exact signs a woman is sexually attracted to you so you never have to worry if you’re misreading her body language and subtle cues.| Tantric Academy
Sexual intimacy issues: what causes fear of sexual intimacy? How to master the Art of Sex? And how to create sexual healing? Top 6 advice from..| Tantric Academy
Christopher Landau writes: In some of the cases of marriage breakdown I have known, a crucial moment came when one party no longer believed the marriage could be saved, and so the only option was to proceed to divorce. I fear the Church of England stands on the precipice of such a moment. I hope| Psephizo
Not everything was bad at the session of General Synod last weekend. When someone asked me how I was, I replied 'I feel like the violinist in the orchestra on the Titanic. The music is going very well!' There was an important discussion about 'rest periods for office holders' (C of E language for vicars| Psephizo
There are thousands of crappy videos in aid of dubious projects. So I generally have to be paid to care about any of them. And lo, my latest hire: to examine what’s going on with Stardusk’s half-hour video Protectors, Providers, Nazis and Prostitutes on his channel Thinking-Ape. Considered one of the founding members of the […]| Richard Carrier Blogs
It will come as a surprise to exactly zero regular readers that I have been contemplating the concept of obscenity lately. What may come as a surprise to you, however, is exactly why I have been th…| Going Medieval
We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite will be published October 8, 2024 by Princeton University Press.| Musa al-Gharbi
So throughout the first half of 2024, my 5min film, along with 20 or so other shorts will be touring around the US, Canada, and Eurpoe – cumming to an independant theater near you! My mind is kind of blown that my penis (and considerably more) will be on large screens across the US – WOW! Check out the trailer (look sharp for me) and see the schedule, purchase tickets, etc….| Dr. Jallen Rix
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A glossary of terms has been provided at the bottom of the post. A study was published recently stating that a large majority of LGBTQIAP+ people are also autistic. There are a few theories as to w…| Riko's blog: PDA and more.
Coming out to a parent can be tough. In this episode AfroQueer shares a slice of queer African fiction, to bring you courage.| AfroQueer Podcast
Trumpeting sexual freedom also has the power to wound deeply.| The Establishment
