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...Rowling recently made a public statement regarding the sexual orientation of beloved Professor Dumbledore. Dumbledore may have come out of the closet, but there are plenty of other fictional characters that are still hiding out. Perhaps they will soon follow his lead, and stand proud. 1. Iago from Disney’s “Aladdin” 2. Arnold Lobel’s Frog and Toad 3. Edmund from “The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe” 4. Old Yeller 5. Willy Wonka 6. Bert and Ernie 7. Sherlock Holmes 8. The Cowardly Lion...
...true love for every person. FM: What do you think about the different cultural expectations of men and women? Do you think it’s as important for men to be abstinent as women? JF: Biologically, women are more likely to get attached after sexual intercourse, but it definitely goes both ways. Oxytocin is released, particularly in women, when they engage in sexual intercourse, and it’s a hormone that’s meant to bind you to your partner...I think the way to be an empowered woman is to realize that there?...
...UCLA psychology professor Paul Okami, it was shown that children who see their parents naked are in no way worse off than their prudish counterparts. In my experience, a naked family normalizes nudity in a wonderfully productive way. Being naked never feels wrong, embarrassing or innately and cheaply sexual to me; it is an empowering and liberating state of being. This is the legacy I owe to my family...
...usual Schadenfreude for Boston sports, or rather bite my lip and hope for a quick Sox victory so as to get the whole damn thing over with. I was leaning towards the latter; the exquisite masochism of Boston sports fans, born out of centuries of Irish-Catholic resentment and sexual privation was getting tedious; and besides, I had long ago come to the realization that they enjoyed their misery even more than...
...porn harmless when it produces images as bad as those that came out of Abu Ghraib. To be sure, there are many aspects of pornography that are distasteful and destructive. The sort of violent pornography that treats women exclusively as subordinate objects, for instance, reveals a disturbing element of sexual desire. Yet, however tacky or disgusting we may find it, we should recognize that most porn is just the extreme end of a gradient of objectification that occurs regularly in society—involving both men and women. Movies, ads, casual flirting—all can sometimes involve an element...