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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
Hari Sufficiently Condems 'The East, The West, and Sex'
This was a blistering review by Johann Hari of Richard Bernstein's book on how Euro-American sexual mores changed those of the Middle and Far East through the centuries — and vice-versa. '...Only a hundred or so pages in, the scent of testosterone and spent semen soaked into its pages becomes bewildering,' Hari writes in his second ...
Posted to Books by Ankhorite on June 30, 2009
My Samoan Mother Does Not Need Affirmative Action
An AA surgeon, who got into medical school with lower aptitude, grades, test scores and abilities, should operate on my Samoan mother, even though there are better-qualified physicians! Besides your Native grandmother makes you a bigger victim than me with a Mexican (Aztec) mother, so you need AA more. However, I am especially needy, because my ...
Posted to XX Factor by Ralph7 on June 28, 2008