When the F-Word Is Sadly Appropriate
by Carl R. TruemanSexual love cannot be reduced to the simplistic categories of power, exploitation, and individual desire. Continue Reading »
Bros Against Humanity
by Justin LeeIn Silicon Valley, women are subject to appalling amounts of sexual harassment. Continue Reading »
The First Sexual Revolution
by Kyle HarperEpictetus was the sort of figure that only the Roman Empire could have produced. He was born in the Phrygian hills of Anatolia in the middle of the first century. Enslaved and brought to the capital, he served in the household of the freedman Epaphroditos. Epaphroditos, in turn, was in the direct . . . . Continue Reading »
Who Should Teach Your Kids—Harvey or Hildebrand?
by Carl R. TruemanIf any good has come from Weinstein’s crimes, it is that the champions of sex as recreation are being forced to contradict their own philosophy. Continue Reading »
How Vulgarity Normalizes Predators
by Leah Libresco SargeantThe more we embrace vulgarity and the breaking of taboos as liberating, the more predators will flourish. Continue Reading »
From Hippo to Nashville
by Carl R. TruemanThe Nashville Statement fails to address the root of our culture's disordered sexual practices: the psychological assumptions that underpin Western identity politics. Continue Reading »
Bill Nye Unweaves the Rainbow—and Undersells Science
by Leah Libresco SargeantI’m pretty sure I’m in the target audience for Bill Nye’s new show—but it's breaking my heart. Continue Reading »
Surveying Sex, Denying Childhood
by Carl R. TruemanA survey administered by California schools makes children disclose their sexual behavior and marginalizes mom and dad. Continue Reading »
Redemption of the Erotic
by Charles J. ChaputThe following is an excerpt from Archbishop Chaput's new book, Strangers in a Strange Land: The crime of the modern sexual regime is that it robs Eros of its meaning and love of its grandeur. It’s a lie. It’s a theft. It makes us small and ignoble.
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Experiments in Matrimony
by Amy L. WaxJust Married: Same-Sex Couples, Monogamy, and the Future of Marriageby stephen macedoprinceton, 320 pages, $29.95 Before the Supreme Court decision in Obergefell v. Hodges, the law of most states restricted marriage to opposite-sex couples. Now that the Court has held that the Constitution . . . . Continue Reading »
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