Category: Sexuality
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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 […]