Having a chat with a friend online the other day, a syllogism concerning Natural Law Theory (NLT) was proposed. I’ll post it here to see what you think. Let’s see if we can refine it, and work out where the weaknesses occur. P1. Certain body parts have …
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What Feels Good to Me: Extra-Verbal Vocal Sounds and Sonic Pleasure in Black Femme Pop Music
The lyrics to Beyoncé’s 2008 song “Radio” treats listening pleasure as a thinly-veiled metaphor for sexual pleasure. For example, they describe how turning up a car stereo transforms it into a sex toy: “And the bassline be rattlin’ through my …
Women: Here Are 6 Things You Can Do to Experience More Pleasure During Sex
Many women experience frustration from their inability to feel sensation or sexual pleasure from vaginal-penile intercourse. It is common for women to feel closeness, and fullness, but not the intensity they believe that they “should” be feeling.
‘Girls & Sex’ And The Importance Of Talking To Young Women About Pleasure
Author Peggy Orenstein says that when it comes to sexuality, girls today are receiving mixed messages. Girls hear that “they’re supposed to be sexy, they’re supposed to perform sexually for boys,” Orenstein tells Fresh Air’s Terry Gross, “but …
How to Make Sex Sacred.
It’s not just sex that we do this with today. We aren’t present for most things. But what if we could change this? For there is enjoyment and pleasure that we are missing out on. Making sex sacred again is fairly simple; in fact, simple is something we …
Teach Your Daughter About Pleasure (Without Wanting to Crawl Out of Your Skin)
I sometimes wonder if sexual self-discovery is a type of threshold where kids … we can signal to the next generation of women that they deserve not just to experience pleasure but to invent it for themselves. Zaeli Kane is a multimedia storyteller …
What ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Accidentally Gets Right About Sex
When sex becomes primarily a vehicle to fulfill each partner’s libido, there is a risk of objectifying each other in a way that is uncomfortably similar to the puritanicalism portrayed in the story. Rejecting either fertility or pleasure is wrong because …
Sex: when pleasure comes first
People have sex because it feels good. But, whether at school or as adults, sex education often centres on fear or even shame. What if we put pleasure first, instead? “How can we sell everything on sexiness, from toothpaste to cars,” asks sex expert …
Increase Sexual Pleasure Through Vaginal Weightlifting
There are various solutions that people turn to in order to try and improve their sex lives and boost the pleasure that they get from sex. Lack of sexual desire and pleasure can affect both men and women for a range of reasons. One of the things that can …
Amoris Laetitia and the ‘racy’ footnote from Thomas Aquinas that you’ve never read before
Moreover, virtue is not concerned with the amount of pleasure experienced by the external sense … In that text, Thomas warns us against what today is called “sexual anorexia”: Bodily goods are conditioned by a certain fixed measure: wherefore …