Theatre of Blood
Seduction and submission in the work of the Marquis de Sade.
Yuki Zeman
· 19 min read
Sex
A collection of 129 posts
The Problem with Polygyny
Society should favour the tried-and-true norm of monogamous marriage, which is the most fecund arrangement, most likely to produce children in the kind and quantity we need.
Lyman Stone
· 9 min read
Scandalous Monogamy and Faithful Infidelity
On eros and marriage.
Marilyn Simon
· 12 min read
Race Is a Spectrum. Sex Is Pretty Damn Binary
Male versus female is one of surprisingly few genuine dichotomies.
Richard Dawkins
· 12 min read
The Perfect Trifecta
The new attention economy will always privilege the lowest common denominator in performance art, as it does in everything else.
Julia Friedman
· 8 min read
Sex and Smashed Steel
A look back at J.G. Ballard's ‘Crash’—one of the the 20th century’s greatest and most disturbingly prophetic novels.
Benjamin Kerstein
· 25 min read
Against Polyamory
Despite its sex-positive presentation, it is contrary, and perhaps even hostile, to the spirit of Eros.
David Polansky
· 6 min read
The Sex of Skeletons
To suggest that a spirited discussion of the importance of sex and gender in archeology threatens “scientific integrity” is to misunderstand the nature of science.
Lawrence M. Krauss
· 7 min read
Oppressed or Oppressor? Quillette Cetera Episode 16
Debating feminist philosopher Holly Lawford-Smith
Zoe Booth, Holly Lawford-Smith
· 1 min read
Marching Backwards
Mary Harrington’s proposed solution to the excesses of modern feminism is an overcorrection.
Marilyn Simon
· 14 min read
Rebalancing the Gender Narrative
Richard Reeves’s new book is a valuable contribution to a gender debate stuck on outdated axioms.
Ari David Blaff
· 7 min read
Infidelity Reconsidered
As a society, we should not presume to judge the relationships of others based on our own moral code.
Limor Gottlieb
· 7 min read
Tinder and Toxicity
Why Lonely Single Men Should Delete Dating Apps.
Domanic Towers
· 7 min read
Children of the Counter-Revolution
Sexual liberty reconsidered.
Cathy Young
· 16 min read
What Explains Women's Fascination With BDSM Fiction?
Every generation or so (i.e., roughly every 25 years) a woman (it’s always a woman) writes a book about kinky sex—and a very specific type of kinky sex.
Robert King
· 10 min read