Reading Time: 2 minutes For the past few days, Christian hate-preacher Greg Locke has been hosting a “National Deliverance Training Conference” at his Global Vision Bible Church in Mount Juliet, Tennessee. Deliverance, in fundamentalist parlance, means saving people from demons. That implies that attendees all believe demons are actual, literal beings that cause people to do very bad things… […]
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In an era of reproductive justice battles, National Masturbation Month matters
Reading Time: 3 minutes Masturbation has been a taboo subject for much of Western history. Early Christians declared it a sin, while European medicine and psychology took it up in a pathologizing way. But we’ve come a long way from thinking masturbation condemns you to hell or that it causes hair to grow on the palms of your hands, […]
Posted inReligion
Christian Accountabilibuddies Are Seriously A Thing
Reading Time: 12 minutes Today, we look at Christian Accountabilibuddies, which are totally a real thing that many Christians do.
Posted inCartoons, General
Esoteric Cleric Spreading the Good Word
Reading Time: < 1 minute Spatsby has confidence that he knows the truth. Eleanor is a depressed narwhal longing for meaning. She’s the perfect target.
Posted inSex & Gender
Taking Back My Body
Reading Time: 6 minutes I was not my own. I was bought at a price. I was my beloved’s and he was mine. My husband and I were each raised in conservative evangelical Christian homes and churches, and we were both given the same basic messages: our bodies belonged first to God and second to our future spouses. It […]
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Teen Vogue Knocks It Out of the Park on Masturbation
Reading Time: < 1 minute Misinformation and stereotypes abound when it comes to masturbation. I’m glad that publications like Teen Vogue are stepping up to demystify the topic.
Posted inEvolution, Religion
Natural Law Theory: Sexual Organs, Beards and Food
Reading Time: 3 minutes There has been quite a debate raging with regard to Natural Law Theory (NLT) in a post I recently wrote: Sex and Sexuality: Criticising Natural Law Theory. I would just like to add a few interesting problematic analogies to the conversation. The idea with NLT, in its simplest understanding in this context, is that the body […]
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Texas Anti-masturbation Bill Coming closer to Being Law
Reading Time: 2 minutes Sometimes, to illustrate the ridiculous, you must analogise, or logically mimic. These techniques are the best friends of philosophers since they show that “if you accept that, then you must accept this, and this is ridiculous”. A $100 fine for masturbating is being argued for by Texas State Representative Jessica Farra, a Democrat. It’s a delicious bit of […]
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A History of (Hyper-)Sexuality, Volume I: An Introduction (2/2)
Reading Time: 6 minutes Historically & today, the imagination is thought to fuel sexual pleasure but put its user on a dark, dangerous path of degeneracy & ruin.
Posted inCulture, Sex & Gender
An Outlaw Appendage: How A Christian Nation Embraced Circumcision
Reading Time: 8 minutes As a teenager who loved Jesus, I was confident in my ability to defend any criticism of how Christians interpret the Bible. But there was one question I hoped no one would ever ask me: Why does every Christian boy I know have a circumcised penis? I knew exactly one boy whose family identified […]