A Tale of Two Loves: Untangling Sexual Orientation
In 1885, the writer Oscar Wilde was accused of being a homosexual (“The Official Web Site of Oscar Wilde,” n.d.). Or, at the very least, enjoyed a man’s company every now and then. And it wasn’t an...
View ArticleTaking Over for Nature: Why We Should Be Able to Select for Sex
Michel Procope-Couteaux was an 18th-century physician who wrote a book called The Art of Having Boys (Procope-Couteaux, 1750). In it, Couteaux put forth what he said was a reliable method for ensuring...
View ArticleHurts So Good: Is BDSM Healthy? Yes and No
If other animals were as observant of our behavior as we are of theirs, we would look far more bazaar than they do to us. For example, they might say, “Wise One, why do you continue to eat the pepper...
View ArticleTurning On the Red Light
The sexual landscape has drastically changed since our time on the African savannah. Humans have effectively separated pleasure and procreation. This is no minor achievement, seeing how the former can...
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