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  • Polanski

    Just because an adult is sexually stimulated by the sight or actions of a child does not excuse his actions. Your author attempts to excuse Polanski by saying the thirteen-year-old victim he raped behaved provocatively. So where does this slippery slope end? With the three-year-old tot who has learned that ''flirting'' melts an adult and yields ...
    Posted to Human Nature by Mary Golden on October 14, 2009

  • Palin's Choice

    I love the thought of women ascending to high office. While women haven't hit the executive office yet, many fine and talented woman have been in the Senate, Congress, and cabinet positions for decades. As a child of the 70s I myself am abundantly gifted with the benefits of the 70s woman's movement. But the thing that bothers me about Sara ...
    Posted to XX Factor Extra by kgcobb on September 3, 2008

  • Re: Gender History

    I think the issue at hand here is choice, Mr. Bruce. An infant cannot say whether they choose to be considered as ''male'' or ''female'' if they have ambiguous genitalia. An adult can. Many things are considered wrong if done to children, while not with adults. As for the hijra and the berdache, they are indeed rare, that is true, and gender ...
    Posted to Human Nature by SerenityRising on July 10, 2008

  • Gender History

    I think this article is a very careful examination of the issue, very well written, and I am thrilled by its open-minded viewpoint. I'd like to add, though, that history has not always seen gender as a two-sided coin. The idea of gender dichotomy as ''one man, one woman'' in our culture has its origins in European and Christian culture. Many ...
    Posted to Human Nature by SerenityRising on July 8, 2008

  • Thank you for writing this!

    ... this story is heartbreaking and infuriating. Of course the elderly are full human beings, have an evolved sexuality, and should have full access to their sexual rights. If our legal and familial institutions are not set up to handle these realities, they need to change. Many cultures have either formal or 'look the other way' valves to ...
    Posted to Family by commentator245 on June 14, 2008

  • re: the secret lives of married men

    I think Meghan had some trenchant observations. Phillip Weiss comes off in her views as someone who wants to relive his adolescent sex fantasies from his college days while his wife stays home being the responsible monogamous adult. This sounds hypocritical and exploitative to me. That much is obvious. However, intriguing questions arise from ...
    Posted to XX Factor by cfarris on May 21, 2008

  • Re: Chelsa Clinton

    ''Do you even understand the ISSUE?'' Your simplistic dismissal of the query reveals exactly what is wrong with so-called ''news'' nowadays. Whatever his intent, using ''pimped'', ''pimped-out'', or any variation in reference to ANY public figure, not just Hilary and Bill's daughter, is at least graceless and vulgar, an should be considered far ...
    Posted to XX Factor by commortis on February 9, 2008