Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Hitchens on Religion And Sex
From God Is Not Great, by Christopher Hitchens. The relationship between physical health and mental health is now well understood to have a strong connection to the sexual function or dysfunction. Can it be a coincidence, then, that all religions claim the right to legislate in matters of sex? The principal way in which believers […]
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Can Atheists Have a Code of Sexual Morality?
Carnal Nation features a regular column by sex therapist and author Dr Marty Klein called Sexual Intelligence. He’s just published a great column called Can Atheists Have A Code Of Sexual Morality? This question is at once hilarious, insulting, pathetic, and revealing. It only makes sense if you believe in two things: 1. Moral thought […]
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Greta Christina On Atheism And Sexuality
Greta Christina on Atheism & Sexuality from Jennifer McCreight on Vimeo. Lecture by Greta Christina at Purdue University on 2/5/10 The sexual morality of traditional religion tends to be based, not on solid ethical principles, but on a set of taboos about what kinds of sex God does and doesn’t want people to have. And […]
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Never Felt Guilty?
Pic is from the genius at Atheist Cartoons.
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Welcome To Humanist Porn
Humanist Porn is a new site that seeks to forge a new path for depictions of human sexuality. For too long, sex has been defined in terms of religious morality and sin. For centuries this basic human function has been chained down by negativity, sexism and guilt. Much of the pornography created today reproduces the […]
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