clips from an ex-porn stars podcast (lana rhoades) discussing the type of manipulation and pressure she experienced pic.twitter.com/gX5Ev1pQcO
— argue with ur mammy (@ddilfhunter) April 24, 2021
Saturday, April 24, 2021
Is There Manipulation?
Thursday, January 14, 2021
An uncomfortable Truth for Blue Pill Socons
Pornography consumption is “largely irrelevant” to sexism. The long standing claims that it’s some kind of super stimulus and overriding influence were based on morality not how humans and values actually work. https://t.co/owAdNfYO3F
— David J. Ley PhD (@DrDavidLey) January 13, 2021
Wednesday, December 30, 2020
How's That Feminism Working out for You?
A porn actor and producer who worked for the website GirlsDoPorn pleaded guilty to sex trafficking charges.
— Women's Voices (@WomenReadWomen) December 20, 2020
Victims were physically prevented from leaving rooms where the scenes were filmed, often with defendants barricading the doors.@LailaMickelwaithttps://t.co/bcWHmMKYyo
Saturday, October 31, 2020
Too Much White-Knighting
Casey Chalk
The Christians of the East are helpful guides in visual worship. Orthodox bishop and theologian Kallistos Ware explains: “an Orthodox act of liturgical prayer is unthinkable without the presence of icons.” https://t.co/9O0UYaboXO
— Fr. Barnabas Powell (@FrBarnabas) October 30, 2020
Saturday, October 12, 2019
Friday, March 22, 2019
STRIVE
Catholic apologist and anti-pornography crusader Matt Fradd has partnered with Cardinal Studios to release STRIVE: A 21-Day Detox from Porn, a new series which provides men struggling with a porn addiction the tools they need [...]
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Friday, January 25, 2019
Justifying Their Existence
CNA: Major Japanese convenience stores ban pornography
Thursday, December 13, 2018
Byung-Chul Han
The reflections of a Korean-German philosopher can help us understand how we’re easily deceived by false freedom.
Friday, December 07, 2018
A New Documentary on the Consequences of Porn Use
The film series Brain, Heart, World has just been released. It consists of three episodes each about 30 minutes long. Each episode explores a different realm in which pornography causes [...]
Brain, Heart, World
Saturday, February 17, 2018
Armchair AMOGs
An alliance between "conservatives" and "anti-porn" feminists? Ultimately, it would be an anti-porn movement in service of whom? Feminism? What alternative would "conservatives" have to counter it, besides some feminized version of Christianity? The author offers no real solutions to the existential crisis that leads to the increase of porn use among males, nor to the existential crisis of women that is rooted in self-hatred, feminism, and rebellion.
Fighting Porn: The Reviving Cause Social Conservatism Needs By Michael Warren Davis
It isn't a last gasp; it's a new beginning, one that's rallying a new breed of young traditionalists.
Tuesday, December 12, 2017
Why?
Liberals, Blacks, Catholics, and Jews watch more pornography.https://t.co/98vzeXxfad pic.twitter.com/jRRMvrUXwr
— Rolf Degen (@DegenRolf) December 12, 2017
Saturday, February 11, 2017
Clueless about Women and Misrepresenting Female Porn
Fifty Shades of Darker Double Standards by Teresa Tomeo
Surely the same women who were able to bring a half a million of their sisters and supporters together so quickly must be planning another major show of defiance against the latest example of female abuse and misogyny?
50 Shades isn't the glorification of real physical violence, it is a revelation of "normal" female dom/sub fantasies, written by women for women.
Wednesday, July 27, 2016
Finally, An Issue That is Getting Some Attention
Not fully read pill (the promiscuity of women and men is probably not equally distributed): Marian Femininity Before and After “I Do” by Stephanie Gordon
Thursday, March 31, 2016
Thursday, January 14, 2016
Thursday, June 25, 2015
Tuesday, September 30, 2014
Thursday, December 05, 2013
Cheap, Insensitive Moralism?
What Can Pornography Teach Us About Love? By Michael Bradley
Apple trailer
Is this sort of shaming helpful to betas and nice guys who use pornography? Let us be clear: the use of pornography and its attendant sins are contrary to reason and can become a vice, and heavy use of pornography and subsequent sins can lead to physical and emotional desensitization and other bad effects. But are these effects universal, or for only those who are heavily dependent, the "addicted"? Can pornography lead to unrealistic expectations about relationships and sex? Or is it possible for men to use pornography and be relatively unscathed when it comes to 'managing' their personal lives, treating it more as a relief or as an escape rather than as a substitute for a real relationship?
Often in popular moralism we see the heavy use of consequentialist argumentation to 'scare' people to avoid a certain action. Is this really an effective strategy? Or should we consider the reasons why men might be turning to pornography more (besides being hooked while young through early exposure) and address those as well? This kind of moralizing may seem like one-upmanship by those who've "got theirs" or are on their way to getting married at least.
The disordered desire for venereal gratification is a problem and a form of self-love but might it be possible that the natural psychic separation of sex and emotional intimacy in the male mind prevents many or most men from falling into the psychological pitfalls that conservative moralists always seem to discuss? (Even when men learn to associate sex with emotional intimacy and genuine love, they probably do not experience this association in the same way that women do, who do so 'naturally.')
If St. Paul is correct that it is "better to marry than to burn with passion," then what are conservatives or Christians doing to promote and facilitate early marriage in their communities? Do they acknowledge sex differences and what a healthy masculinity is like, or do they try to diminish it through a misguided ideology like TOB (which can be both sentimental and 'spiritualist' simultaneously)?
TOB lectures: EWTN
Christians Find Help for Porn, Masturbation Addiction Through 'NoFap' Community Started on Reddit by 24-Y-O Web Developer
Related:
Beware: Non-Celibates Writing about Celibacy by James Martin, SJ (via PBlosser)
Thursday, May 17, 2012
Items of Interest, 17 May 2012
Thomas Fleming, The Inalienable Right to Porn
BETA NATION
Russell Kirk and Swords of Imagination
Glory Days: A pundit’s rosy view of the Pax Americana by Andrew J. Bacevich
The Reserved Powers of the Tenth Amendment by Marshall DeRosa
The Tyranny of Liberalism
From July 4, 2010: Skoble's DELETING THE STATE, a review on this Fourth of July
Predator Nation: America as a Shining Drone Upon a Hill by Tom Engelhardt
On Staring Death in the Face and Not Noticing
WILLIAM ASTORE, The National Security State Wins (Again)
GARETH PORTER, The Parchin “Stand-Off”
Lawrence Auster on Buchanan: he overreaches in attempting to read the souls of Buchanans and others on the "right"; I don't think he substantiates the claim that he is different from them in articulating goals and being sad (as opposed to being Nero taking glee in the burning of Rome).
Uncommon Knowledge: Thomas Sowell on the Vulgar Pride of Intellectuals
How Ron Paul is Winning
The Devil Is in the Details by Scott P. Richert (a review of Timothy Stanley's bio of PJB) (via Conservative Heritage Times)
Issa to Holder: Waiting for Fast and Furious documents like waiting for godot
Urban Design and Architecture:
KunstlerCast#205: Prominent New Urbanist Authors (mp3)
A CNU Panel on Classic, Current and Critical New Urbanist Writing
The Social Factor in Sustainable Architecture by Marcin Gerwin (EB)
America's Demographic Future:
Aaron Wolfe, Accentuate the Positive, Eliminate the Honkers
Vox: Game Over
Economics:
Chris Martenson, Get Ready, We're About to Have Another 2008-Style Crisis
John Williams: The Real Unemployment Rate: 22% – Not 8.1%
The coming fiscal cliff: hyperinflation on track for 2014
Fabius Maximus: Is there a dark swan event ahead for the American economy?
Neo-Feudalism and the Iron Fist
Robb Wolf, The Paleo diet, Sustainability and Economic Growth
Kevin Carson Awarded C4SS’s Karl Hess Chair in Social Theory
FOOD: Tackling the Oldest Environmental Problem: Agriculture and Its Impact on Soil by Wes Jackson
The Next Money: As the Big Economies Falter, Micro-Currencies Rise
Festival of Transition:
In the shadow of the City: A walk through the history of the Corporation
What if... we cancelled the apocalypse
What if… we left the oil in the ground?
What if… land grabbing was banned?
Relocalization:
Jason Peters, Why I Am Not an Environmentalist
False Idyll by J.B. MacKinnon
Seeing only nurture in nature is missing half the point
6 Ideas for Sensible Homes
Small, supportive, affordable, recycled—and you can build your own.
On construction, cake, and local economic regeneration: why we should start with the materials by Rob Hopkins (EB)
Resilience or death: Preparing our farms for the end of agriculture (…as we know it) by Dan Allen
The commons law project: A vision of green governance by David Bollier (EB)
Back to the Land for the Occupy Movement by Jeff Conant (EB)
Food Authors, Writers and Academics Urge UC Berkeley to “Embrace the Gill Tract Farm, Not Police it”
How Small Groups Can Power Big Change by Sarah Byrnes
Progressive social movements don’t often take inspiration from conservative megachurches. But their lessons about organizational structure may be worth a second look.
Why such a lack of common sense about dogs? by Gene Logsdon (EB)
Shannon Hayes, Gainful Unemployment
Energy:
Jeffrey Brown responds to "U.S. energy independence is no longer just a pipe dream"
Translating "Peeking at Peak Oil" by Michael Lardelli (EB)
Commentary: Major oil companies on peak oil by Robert L. Hirsch
Clean Energy as Culture War
Free Energy Does Not Occur in Nature
Catholic:
Mexican Catholics Fight for Christ in Greater Glory
Fr. Uwe Michael Lang on Vernacular Translations
James Matthew Wilson, Misanthropy or Hymenopteraphilia? E.O. Wilson is Ant(i)-Gracehoper
التاسعة للسيدة في صلاة السحر لأَحد الأَعمى
Diet and Health:
MDA: Why We're Missing Out on Real Life
Bring Back Butter... and Cheese, Red Meat and Whole Milk! How Our Low-Fat Obsession May Harm Our Health, Says Nutritionist
Even Art of Manliness has joined the barefoot movement.
(Better than What to Wear on the First Date?)
NPR: Breasts Bigger and More Vulnerable to Toxins
The Thinking Housewife: Walking the Walk, and Breast Cancer Lies
Interview with ‘Wheat Belly’ Author Dr. William Davis
Adam Farrah, The Paleo Dieter's Missing Link
Latest in Paleo
Biological Clock Cannot Be Rewound
Music:
The Timless Traveled Treasures of Jordi Savall
Lonesome River Band
Lindsey Stirling - " Crystallize " Dubstep Violin (music video HD)
Nora Jane Struthers & The Bootleggers
Movies:
Eve Tushnet on Damsels in Distress: Guys and Ladies
TV:
There's A New Sheriff In Town: Dennis Quaid
By Joe Leydon
Julianne Hough on DWTS
Misc:
Me262 at the ILA2006 in Berlin (original sound)
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Items of Interest, 24 April 2012
Ron Paul attacks CISPA in urgent call to oppose 'Big Brother' bill
New Law Makes Protesting Near the President Illegal; Judge Napolitano Calls It an ‘Assault on Free Speech’
FBI: Hundres of Thousands May Lose Internet in July
Libertarianism, Conservatism, and Egalitarianism by Carson Holloway
Hawaiian Libertarian: This is Your Brain, This is Your Brain on Porn
Obama on soldiers who posed with Afghan corpses: ‘Reprehensible’ conduct merits probe
Are we really more civilized than that? Or have we thrown our soldiers into an insane situation?
Damien Perrotin, Party Politics (EB)
Wendell Berry, American Hero by Mark Bittman
Wendell Berry in D.C. in Two Venues - Wendell Berry at National Cathedral
Economics:
The Exodus of American Manufacturing
Money and wealth: How to heal the disconnect by David Boyle (EB)
Farming:
WATCH: Joel Salatin on Building Resilience into Agriculture
The Value of Our Produce
Peak Oil and Energy:
A Snarky Guide to Peak Oil
Deepwater what?
Catholic:
The First Mass of a Young Ordinariate Priest: Fr. James Bradley
Pope: Women Have Key Role in Building Up Church in America
The statement is a little too facile and brief? Unless "Catholic feminism" has prevailed and dominates the thinking of Uhmerican Catholics on the roles of women.
Feminism:
"Marriage is For Losers"
But how many marriage counselors and therapists are biased towards women? What about respect for the man as a man and his authority as husband and father?
Anna Quindlen Over 50 and Having Plenty of Cake
Jack Donovan, Men in Uncomfortable Shoes
Diet and Health:
MovNat Will Change You: Commentary by Instructor Kellen Milad
Mark Sisson in South Africa
Let's Put an End to Dietary Tribalism
Movies:
Trailer - My S.O. Has Depression (Tsure ga Utsu ni Narimashite)
Music:
Steep Canyon Rangers:
Instrument Interview #3: Carolina Chocolate Drops
Katherine Jenkins & Mark Ballas - Samba - Week 6