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Why Do Men Watch Porn? A Feminist and Queer Analysis
The dominant neuroscientific discourse on male porn addiction is underpinned by a moral pedagogy that tacitly assumes a normative sexual baseline: that the brain’s reward circuits, genitalia, and arousal systems were designed by evolution for heterosexual intercourse aimed at reproduction, and that any deviation (such as pornography consumption) constitutes a pathological distortion of this natural […]
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Narcissism, Misogyny, Racism, and Fascism: Not Just a Trump thing
Note: This article below appears in the Lincoln County Leader, and I am waiting for the same rejoinder that the little county of Lincoln is running each Wednesday before my radio show, Finding Fringe, to appear on the Editorial page of a newspaper over 100 years old: Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in this […]
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The Politics of Eating
Reflections on the psychological, moral and political implications of what we eat, and on prospects for non-violent social change. Tell me what you eat and I will tell you what you are. — Brillat-Savarin, The Physiology of Taste, Brillat-Savarin, Jean-Anthelme, (Penguin Books, 1994): p.13. Getting back into fasting after a break is difficult. In the […]
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Hunger Profiteers, Granny Killers, and Skin-Deep Morality
Today, a fifth (278 million) of the African population are undernourished, and 55 million of that continent’s children under the age of five are stunted due to severe malnutrition. In 2021, an Oxfam review of IMF COVID-19 loans showed that 33 African countries were encouraged to pursue austerity policies. Oxfam and Development Finance International also revealed that 43 out […]
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