We are conditioned to believe that the attachment between mother and baby will be instant and inviolable. The received wisdom is that from the moment a woman learns she is pregnant, a lifelong bond begins to grow, linking mother and child for ever in the strongest possible manifestation of love. But what if it doesn’t? What…
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EDITORS Note: They are “Considering” it? WTF? A Virginia school district is considering banning cross-dressing by students, out of what one board member called concerns for the safety of “several” male students who wear dresses and wigs to school. The Suffolk Board of Education plans to take up the issue at a meeting Thursday night,…
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Submitted by Charles Hugh Smith from Of Two Minds Social Fractals And The Corruption of America Social fractals and social control myths help explain the complete corruption of America. Correspondent Kathy K. recently elucidated a powerful concept: social fractals. We typically think of fractals–structures that are scale-invariant–as features of Nature or finance. For example, a…
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A 15-year-old girl in Panama City called police when she heard her mother having sex A North Florida teen who “felt disrespected” by her mother after she heard her having sex in an adjoining bedroom called 911 to report the lovemaking, according to a police report. The 15-year-old called 911 last Thursday around 4 a.m….
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January 4, 2012 (PublicDiscourse.com) – The anger and disgust that most of us experienced when we learned of the allegations of sexual abuse of boys in the sports programs at Penn State and Syracuse University suggest that our cultural norms about the sexual abuse of minors are intact. Yet it was only a decade ago…
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This couldn’t happen to a nicer group of guys. If you’re searching for a reason not to have sex with animals, add this to the list: It could give you penis cancer, according to a new study published in the Journal of Sexual Medicine. The authors found that men who have had sex with animals…
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