Libertine

I’ve not so far written about the Tiger Woods story because I viewed it as yet another story about a straying celebrity and that it would quickly become yesterday’s news.  Reports such as these are now rather commonplace and are hardly worth reporting on, let alone commenting on.
But this story outlived its fifteen minutes a [...]

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This morning while idly surfing the net, I read one woman’s rant about the latest sexual brouhaha du jour; that of David Letterman being blackmailed over the many sexual dalliances he’s had over the years with women he’d worked with. In complete indignation, she ripped Letterman up one side and down the other.
She reviled [...]

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With all the recent outings of politicians engaged in extramarital sex, my favorite liberal news site, Alternet, has been doing a flurry of articles relating to this subject.   In a recent article, Relax: Adultery Is Not That Big Of a Deal by Samara O’Shea, she explores the idea:

I’m not justifying infidelity. But it [...]

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A recent article on Alternet, For Many, Marriage is Sexless, Boring, and Oppressive:Time to Rethink the Institution? by Amanda Marcotte, asks the question:

Marriage is failing many, many people. Why do we still idealize it?
My response to this article follows below:
Formalized marriage and monogamy began for practical reasons, unrelated to any religious notions of “sanctity”. [...]

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