Tag: sexual behavior

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I intensely dislike the neologism “incel,” a portmanteau term for involuntary celibate. It seems to me an entirely unnecessary synonym for what has always been called a “bachelor,” or unmarried man. Growing up in a vestigially Christian society, I learned the faith’s traditional teaching about sexual morality: one could either get married or remain celibate, with either being a legitimate choice. (more…)

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I have made the point in previous essays that because the sexes are complementary, it is generally possible to find a counterpart in each for any phenomenon observed in the other. Women and men each have their characteristic faults of which the opposite sex is largely free. A closer look will generally reveal, however, that for any fault discoverable in women, men have some qualitatively different fault which represents its pendant or counterpart—and vice-versa.

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Long time readers of my writings on sexual mores know that I make frequent, usually sarcastic remarks at the expense of conservative commentators who are pleased to denounce younger men as “predators.” Many writers use the term, and as a regular reader of Chronicles between 1997 and 2005 I saw it constantly—on almost every occasion the subject of sex arose, in fact. From time to time, I have heard particular men accused of being sexual predators as well, including men I have known personally. (more…)

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Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán receives endless flak in the Western media due to his staunch advocacy of an anti-woke regime of what he likes to term “illiberal democracy”, but which often sounds more like pure common sense. (more…)

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You can buy F. Roger Devlin’s Sexual Utopia in Power here.

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Besides date rape, “sexual harassment” is the major criminological innovation of the modern feminist movement. As noted in a previous essay, when the expression was first introduced in 1978 it referred to sexual extortion, the use of threats or reductions in a woman’s options in order to elicit sexual favors from her. This has always been recognized as wrong, and no new term was needed to describe it. But the term appeared anyway, and the first “sexual harassment” legal case called by that name was adjudged in 1979.

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Andrea Dworkin

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Methodological problems with the Koss study were soon uncovered and publicized, but to little effect. For one thing, it was not the “victims” themselves who described their experiences as rape or attempted rape (hence the title of Warshaw’s book: I Never Called It Rape). (more…)

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Il filosofo britannico CEM Joad (1891-1953) una volta spiegò la decadenza sociale come “un segno della tendenza dell’uomo a fraintendere la propria posizione nell’universo, ad avere una visione del proprio status e delle proprie prospettive più elevata di quanto i fatti giustifichino e a dirigere le proprie società e a pianificare il proprio futuro sulla base di questa interpretazione errata”. Le età decadenti iniziano quando:

L’uomo che ha goduto di un lungo periodo di successo crede che nulla gli sia impossibile. È lui, secondo lui, l’arbitro del suo destino e della sua fortuna; il futuro è suo, da creare. “Gli uomini”, come disse Alberti, il fiorentino rinascimentale, “possono fare tutto se vogliono”.

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The 1980s, the decade of my early manhood, was an era of transition. Seeds planted in the 1970s that would burst forth into hideous flower in the 1990s were quietly germinating. The rumor that there was more sex than before the sexual revolution of the late 1960s persisted—as it does even today among the less well-informed of the older generation—but the initial excitement had clearly died down. (more…)

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Part 1 here, Part 2 here, Part 3 here

Another important aspect of sexual discourse in the 1970s was, of course, the then-burgeoning feminist movement already alluded to, but this was of almost no concern to a little boy or adolescent such as myself. (more…)

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Cosmopolitan was not the only magazine whose covers caught my attention as a child. There were also celebrity gossip magazines dishing all the latest on Liz and Dick (Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton). Another celebrity couple I particularly remember from childhood is Gregg Allman and Cher, then recently divorced from Sonny Bono (this will have been in 1975 when I was eleven). (more…)

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1973 witnessed professional tennis’s heavily promoted “Battle of the Sexes” between 55-year-old former Wimbledon Champion Bobby Riggs and 29-year-old feminist Billie Jean King. The gallant Mr. Riggs, of course, let Miss King win. (more…)

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The decade of the 1970s coincided with my seventh through the seventeenth years. They made a strong impression on me, as those years of one’s life generally do. I remember a lot of what I saw, experienced, and thought about growing up. (more…)

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Bettie Page

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Much of a girl’s reputation had to do with chastity, but not all. A second aspect was the need to keep dates. When a boy asked a girl out, she had the right to say either yes or no. But if she said yes, she absolutely, positively had to go on that date. (more…)