thoughts in and out of season
Social historian Barbara Dafoe Whitehead has two unmarried daughters in their thirties and has written a book about their problems: Why There Are No Good Men Left. The basic problem, she seems to believe, is a sort of mechanical lack of opportunity. Young women today are raised to find careers rather than husbands. When … More ...
Some medical bits confirming once again that sexual oddities go together with behavior that is otherwise disordered: Gay, Bisexual Women Take More Risks Than Gay Men, and Drugs, Unsafe Sex Common Among Men Living as Women. They seemed worth mentioning as somewhat relevant to the recent insistence by the American Psychiatric Association that … More ...
They finally did it: New York legislature passes “gay rights” bill. The Republicans had been keeping the bill bottled up in committee, but brought it to the floor as a political pay-off to a homosexual organization that had endorsed the Republican governor for re-election. It passed the Assembly and Senate by solid-to-overwhelming margins.
There … More ...
The social construction of reality, chapter whatever: American Psychiatric Association issues statement endorsing right of gay and lesbian couples to adopt. According to the APA, “research over the past 30 years has consistently demonstrated that children raised by gay or lesbian parents exhibit the same level of emotional, cognitive, social and sexual functioning as … More ...
Since I’m on the topic, here’s more sex news: unreported triumph fighting AIDS in Uganda because of superior sex education. HIV prevalence there was 15 percent in 1991 but 5 percent by 2001, a dramatic decline that is unique worldwide.
Oddly, the superior education was the kind Human Rights Watch doesn’t like because it violates … More ...
The American Law Institute has urged states to update their family law by abolishing the family. Basically, what they propose is to abolish marriage by treating all “living together” arrangements the same, and to redistribute wealth by treating the breakup of such arrangements as an occasion for equalizing the wealth of the parties. The first … More ...
In the course of writing an article on the “human rights” movement I ran into this report from the good folks at Human Rights Watch, a prominent “watchdog” organization: Ignorance Only: HIV/AIDS, Human Rights and Federally Funded Abstinence-Only Programs in the United States. The conclusion of the report: “Federally funded abstinence-only programs interfere … More ...
This has to be one of the least surprising news stories ever: Women Enjoy Best Sex Within Marriage.
The author pours a huge amount of material into The Politics of Family Destruction, an account of what he calls “the divorce industry.” Even though I include links to a lot of men’s rights groups (which are largely concerned with the treatment of men by family courts) in my anti-feminist page, I don’t … More ...
A bit of an oddity: “Women Exploiting Women”. The name of the article is uninformative, but the details are fascinating and I wish there were more of them. It seems that several successful professional women in Northern California took it into their heads to set up a pyramid scheme based on big payoffs, birthday … More ...