sex

The Smell of Fear / The Smell of Sex

Mark Bennett
January 09, 2009 14:17

A year and a half ago, I wrote: Walking the halls of the Harris County Criminal Courthouse, I smell fear. The accused are often afraid, as you might expect, as are their loved ones, but theirs is not the fear I smell. The fear I smell oozes out from under doors leading to the judges’ chambers, l...

A Different Sort of Red Light Camera, and A Surprise for Bal’mer

Mark Bennett
January 07, 2009 19:31

In Sweden, Police are using surveillance cameras and CCTV footage to catch men who visit prostitutes and pay - or seek to pay for - sex. Within weeks of such a visit a letter is sent to the “torsk” - Swedish slang for a male sex customer. If he does not admit to the crime he [...]In...

An academic conference about sex at academic conferences.

Ann Althouse
January 02, 2009 17:05

Yeah, I know it sounds like the the theme of novel that should have been written in the 1980s if it was going to be written at all, but there really was this conference. This week, in San Francisco, Modern Language Association. Jennifer Drouin, an assistant professor of English and women’s studies a...

Why social conservatives should not argue — as Dennis Prager does — that a woman should have sex with her husband whether she's in the mood or not.

Ann Althouse
January 02, 2009 02:53

And by "social conservatives," I mean, specifically, persons who oppose homosexual relationships or, at least, same-sex marriage.Here's Dennis Prager's much-mocked Townhall column. He says things like "Why would a loving, wise woman allow mood to determine whether or not she will give her husband...

To all my commenters, the best commenters in the blogosphere.

Ann Althouse
December 30, 2008 18:04

Yesterday, the day I saw "The Curious Life of Benjamin Button" and wrote that post, I conked out early.Oh, I don't know if it was from the movie or from the pizza and one glass of wine I had afterward or just from being somewhat old. Most of the people in the movie audience were old, so old, that...