The Humanist Hour #63: Sex and Secularism
A new episode of the Humanist Hour is available for listening. Keep reading to find out about the guests on this month's show. In this... Read More
Speaking of Sex An interview with psychologist Christopher Ryan, co-author of the New York Times bestseller Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality
Christopher Ryan received a BA in English and American literature from Saybrook University in San Francisco, California, in 1984 and returned twenty years later... Read More
Plato, Romance, and Self-Inquiry
If philosophy has all along proclaimed the unexamined life to be not worth living, it seems not yet to have grasped that the unloving... Read More
The State of Sex: Tourism, Sex, and Sin in the New American Heartland
Sex sells. Or, perhaps it would be more accurate to say that sex sells things. The saturation of our society with sex and sexuality... Read More
Shifting Positions: Humanist Perspectives on Porn
Prior to the sexual revolution of the 1960s, pornographic material was kept private amid a culture that labeled it too risqué for the public... Read More
Atheism, Ethics, and Pornography: An Interview with Nina Hartley
Marie Hartman graduated with honors from San Francisco State University and is the author or coauthor of several books published by major publishing houses... Read More
Evolution and the Thong-Burqa Continuum
The “Thong Song,” a rap homage to butt-baring bikinis, was released in 1999, several years after I graduated from an ideologically feminist all-women’s college.... Read More
Christians, Homosexuality, and the Same-Sex Marriage Question
Humanity has a curious relationship with sex. It obviously enjoys it—there are nearly seven billion people in the world and not all that output... Read More
Praying for Sex
A 140-year-old organization in London called the “Catholic Truth Society” has published a new “Prayer Book for Spouses,” containing among other things a prayer... Read More