We’ve created a new Tumblr blog to give our concept of Green Sexuality its own space to develop. Have a look!“It’s a fascinating concept and reflects some new thinking in the anti-porn movement.”– Voices of American Sexuality
Green Sexuality
Secrets of Relationship Happiness You Won’t Learn from Porn
If you watch a lot of porn, you might begin to think that “Use ’em, Abuse ’em and Lose ’em” is what a man should do. You might think treating your partner roughly was normal. You might think that satisfying long-term relationships are impossible to sustain and not worth it. And you’d be wrong. A […]
The Case for Marriage, Gay and Straight
Reprinted by kind permission of JendiReiter.com: Ted Olson Makes the Conservative Case for Gay Marriage Prominent trial lawyers David Boies and Theodore Olson are arguing the unconstitutionality of Proposition 8 in California federal court this week, in the case of Perry v. Schwarzenegger. Day-by-day trial coverage is available on the Firedoglake blog and the Courage […]
MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann Speaks Out Against Prop 8
We are pleased to reproduce the following article with permission from Reiter’s Block. California’s Proposition 8, recently passed in a close vote, eliminated the right of same-sex couples to marry. Marriage is an important path to happiness for many. It should be available to all regardless of sexual orientation. MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann Speaks Out Against […]
British Medical Journal: Happiness and Social Factors
BMJ (British Medical Journal) published a study yesterday that traces social influences on personal happiness. The results: “People who are surrounded by many happy people and those who are central in the network are more likely to become happy in the future.” To the extent that a person’s consumption of porn isolates them and degrades […]
Making Today’s Marriage Work: Smart Women and Egalitarian Relationships
For all its protestations about being liberatory, most of today’s bestselling porn is atavistic and repressive. Women, goes the theme, should accept and enjoy abuse from men. In a recent study of 50 of the most popular hardcore films, “…I’m going to begin to talk about what it is that we found after looking at […]
David Bornstein: “Pursuing Happiness”
A porn shop like Amazing.net might promise to “excite your life”, but what are the real roots of happiness? David Bornstein explores the subject for World Ark, the magazine of Heifer International.From “Pursuing Happiness”, by David Bornstein: Americans enjoy an “inalienable right” to pursue happiness. But, according to studies, over the past half centruy, despite our […]
Hugo Schwyzer Reviews “Getting Off” by Robert Jensen
Hugo Schwyzer has kindly given us permission to reprint Part One of his three-part review of Getting Off by Robert Jensen. You may read Part Two here and Part Three here. Part one of a series on “Getting Off”: masculinity, pornography, and the truth of what we don’t want to face …I started reading Robert Jensen’s Getting […]
Green Sexuality Is a Concept Worth Exploring – Voices of American Sexuality Blog
Voices of American Sexuality is a blog hosted by American Sexuality Magazine and the National Sexuality Resource Center. They noticed our November 25 press release, which mentions our concept of “green sexuality”: Before our loyal readers tear me apart, I think it’s worth exploring this concept a bit more in good faith. Here at American […]
Wall Street Journal: “What’s at the Heart of Happiness?”
Sunday’s online edition of The Wall Street Journal summarizes current research into happiness: Studies have found that married folks are happier than those who are single.“Marriage provides two sources of happiness,” says Andrew Oswald, an economics professor at England’s Warwick University. “One is sex and the other is friendship. Marriage has one of the largest […]