America’s Lost Boys
by Samuel D. JamesYoung men with less than a four-year degree are spending their days unemployed and unmarried, but not un-amused. Continue Reading »
See No Evil
by Samuel D. JamesIf there’s any good reason to distrust the self-awareness of contemporary progressives, it's the cultural epidemic of pornography. Of all the Sexual Revolution’s fruits, porn is arguably the one that has rotted fastest. It has defied the categorical wisdom of libertines by growing in users and . . . . Continue Reading »
Confronting the Public Health Crisis of Pornography
by Paul S. LoverdeSomething is afoot. “Porn and the Threat to Virility” recently hit the stands not in the form of a religious tractate, but on the cover of Time. Just days prior to that, in Amoris Laetitia, Pope Francis decried the “flood of pornography” and its pernicious spread which deform sexuality. If . . . . Continue Reading »
Sex Trumps History
by Carl R. TruemanThat we live in an age where the discipline of history is in disarray in the public square is beyond dispute. But some of the reasons why are perhaps less obvious than we might think. Continue Reading »
Eros in Iberia
by Peter J. LeithartOn the sex industry of early twentieth-century Spain. Continue Reading »
Porn for the Privileged
by Melinda SelmysIt's time to give up the idea of selling sex “ethically.” Continue Reading »
Arousal Addiction
by Peter J. LeithartYoung males are suffering from “arousal addiction.” Continue Reading »
In Bondage to Pornography
by Carl R. Trueman Scientific research has disturbing implications for building ethics on the principle of consent.
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Porn Goes Mainstream
by Paul S. LoverdeSeven years into his addiction to online porn, John wrote to tell me of his struggles. His addiction began when he misspelled a word in an online search and was taken to a hardcore porn site. Continue Reading »
The Pornographic Double-Bind
by Mark RegnerusForty-three percent of American men (and 9 percent of women) now report using pornography within the past week. It’s not an adolescent thing, either, as data from the new Relationships in America survey reveals. For men, porn use peaks in their twenties and thirties before beginning to diminish slowly. Indeed, sixty-year-old men are only slightly less likely to have viewed pornography within the past week than men in their twenties and thirties. Continue Reading »
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