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March 4, 2010
Paul Craig Roberts
Is the Recovery Real?
March 3, 2010
Norman Finkelstein
Truth and Consequences in Gaza
Bill Quigley
Mercenaries Circling Haiti
Franklin C. Spinney
Eisenhower's Nightmare Arrives
Dean Baker
The Power of Stupidity: Economic Policy and Unemployment
Mike Whitney
We Need Bigger Deficits
Raed Jarrar /
Erik Leaver
Sliding Backwards on Iraq
Adam Federman
To Drill or Not to Drill
Joshua Frank
The EPA's Coal Ash Whitewash
Will Parrish / Darwin Bond-Graham
"WE Make the Crisis"
Matt Siegfried
The Ganja Games
Website of the Day
Sea Lion Defense Brigade
March 2, 2010
Patrick Cockburn
Uproar Before Iraqi Elections
Tricia Shapiro
Mountain Injustice
Gareth Porter
Defying the U. S.
Paul Craig Roberts
A Religion Divided Against Itself
Ellen Brown
IMF-Style Austerity Comes to America
David Macaray
Labor and the Democrats:
What Does $400 Million Buy You These Days?
Stewart J. Lawrence
Is Obama Already a Lame Duck?
Shamus Cooke
How Obamacare Kills Real Health Care Reform
Udi Aloni /
Ofer Neiman
What Israel Fears
Binoy Kampmark
Australia's History Wars
Stephen Soldz
The Battle Over Informed Consent
Website of the Day
What to Do About Tactical Nuclear Weapons
March 1, 2010
Ralph Nader
Whatever Happened to "We the People"?
Will Parrish /
Darwin Bond-Graham
Who Runs the University of California?
Mike Whitney
The Case Against Bernanke and Greenspan
Diana Johnstone
The Fall of Greece
Jayne Lyn Stahl
A Refuge for Cowards: the Senate Extends the Patriot Act
Vijay Prashad
It's Love! India and Saudi Arabia Embrace
Paul Buhle Organizing Against Empire: Where Left and Right Meet ... Amicably
Robert Jensen
Getting Rid of Hope and Faith
Marga Tojo Gonzales
Will Capitalism Absorb the World Social Forum?
Website of the Day
The Decline of the Israeli Right?
February 26 - 28, 2010
Alexander Cockburn
Feed Pete Peterson to the Whales
Alison Weir
Media Reporting on Israel: All in the Family
Will Parrish /
Darwin Bond-Graham
DiFi and Blum: a Marriage Marinated in Money
Jason Hribal
How Orky and Kasatka Almost Sank Sea World
Saul Landau /
Nelson P. Valdes
The Pentagon: Gargantua's Mouth
Mark Weisbrot
The Debt is Not the Threat
Alan Farago
The Potemkin Village Economy
Suzan Mazur
Peer Review as Censorship: an Interview with Historian David Noble
Martha Rosenberg
Talking with Gail Collins About the Women's Rights Movement
Ray McGovern
A "Good" Terrorist Captured by Iran
Rannie Amiri
Egypt's Nuclear Option
Dave Lindorff
The Accidental Patient
Ramzy Baroud
Challenging History
David Macaray
Union Politics for Grown-Ups
Jared Ritvo
The Life and Death Struggle of the Yanomami
Missy Beattie
The Indefatigable Cindy Sheehan
Brian McKenna
Zinn and the Art of History
Don Santina
Don't Mourn, Go Green
Binoy Kampmark
Deadly Purchases
M.G. Piety
Frozen in Time: Does Figure Skating Have a Future?
Michael Dickinson Art as Defensive Weapon
Charles R. Larson
Learning to Live
Ben Sonnenberg
"24 City:" a Remarkable Chinese Film
David Yearsley
Sex in the Name of Christ
Poets' Basement
Edward Beatty
Website of the Weekend
A Tribute to Howard Zinn
February 25, 2010
Jason Hribal
Orca Resistance at Sea World
Clancy Sigal
No, in Anger: Liberals Have Lost Their Thunder
Tariq Ali
The Assault on Illhem
Jonathan Cook
Ethan Bronner and Conflicts of Interest
Mike Whitney
The War on Toyota: Is It All Politics?
Peter Lee
China's New Iran Strategy
Russell Mokhiber Prosecuting Bush for War Crimes
Deepak Tripathi Charlie Wilson's Legacy
Norman Solomon
War Politics
Phillip Doe
Colorado's Weed War Swindle
Website of the Day
Once There Was a Senator of Conscience ...
February 24, 2010
Ashley Smith
Haiti and the Aid Racket
Mike Whitney
Geithner's Gotta Go
Garerth Porter
The Real Objective of the Marja Offensive
Joe Bageant
Round Midnight: the American Disease
Shamus Cooke
The Plot to Kill Social Security
Al Benchich
GM's Northern Strategy: Go Non-Union
Harvey Wasserman
The Nuclear Lobby's $645 Million Con Job
Jim Goodman
Promises, Promises:
the Fairy Tale of GM Crops
Ron Jacobs
The Hollow Man Reaches His Omega Point
Stewart J. Lawrence
Sarah Palin: All Pump, No Caribou
Tom Clifford
Bribes, Corruption and the Pandur APC
Website of the Day
Blackwater and the "South Park" Alias
February 23, 2010
Uri Avnery
The Dubai Hit
Paul Craig Roberts
The Last Flight of Joe Stack
William P. O'Connor
The Story of Pvt. Hargrove
Steven Higgs
Evan Bayh, the Hoosier Drama Queen
Marshall Auerback / L. Randall Wray
War on Goldman Sachs
Jeff Sher
Health Care as Political Theater
Carl Finamore
Inside Organizing and Outside Representation
Dave Lindorff
Rampage in Philly
Benjamin Dangl
Beer Globalization in Latin America
Anthony Papa
Why Gov. Paterson Should be Applauded for Hiring Former Drug Dealer
Bob Sommer
Bringing the War Home
Robert Bryce
The Melting Case for Cap-and-Trade
Website of the Day
Sibel Edmonds Has Named Names: Why Isn't the Media Reporting It?
February 22, 2010
Vincent Navarro
Fascism is Alive and Well in Spain
The Case of Judge Garzon
Michael Neumann
Israel and Its Neighbors
Leveling the Playing Field
Marc Weisbrot
Hillary Clinton's War Whoop
Richard Neville
Mocked When She Flew to Baghdad
P. Sainath
ABC of Media: Advertising, Bollywood and Corporate Power
Christopher Ketcham
The Joe Stack Manifesto
Marc Catone
The Vatican's Top Ten Album List
February 19 - 21, 2010
Alexander Cockburn
From God to Gaia to Obama's Nuclear Apocalypse
Bill Quigley
Living Under Green Plastic: Voices of Haiti's Homeless
Joshua Frank /
Jeffrey St. Clair
The Case of Briana Waters
Joan Roelofs
Bases of Empire
Paul Craig Roberts
Looting Social Security
Peter Lee
Iran's Natural Gas Game
Gareth Porter
Jailed Taliban Leader Still a Pakistani Asset
Saul Landau /
Nelson P. Valdes
The Defense Elephant in America's Living Room
Mark Schuller
Passing the "Riot Test" in Haiti
Rev. William E. Alberts
The Sacrifice of Haiti
Thomas M. Power
A Hard-Headed Look at Biomass
John Ross
Dead Man Walking in California
Nicola Nasser
Violent Days in Iraq
Rannie Amiri
The Shia Crescent Revisited
Ramzy Baroud
Trial Balloons for War
David Macaray
Iraq's Labor Unions
M. Shahid Alam
Accidental Parallels?
George Wuerthner
A New Round of National Monuments? a Guide to Obama's Short List
Missy Beattie
Cheney's Baby: a Monster Named Torture
Adam Turl
The Wal-Mart Counter-Revolution
Dave Lindorff
Grumpy, White Terrorists in Cars and Planes
Alan Cabal
The Austin Kamikaze
Farzana Versey
The Halal Question
M. G. Piety
The Lonely Sport: What's Killing Figure Skating?
Charles R. Larson
The Fog of War: DeLillo's "Point Omega"
Kim Nicolini
"35 Shots of Rum:" An Intimate Look at Ordinary Life
David Yearsley
The Night of the Living Deadheads
Lorenzo Wolff
Music, Lyrics and the Void Between Us
Poets' Basement
Michelle Askin
Website of the Weekend
Dresden: The Revenger's Tragedy
February 18, 2010
Sasan Fayazmanesh
A Dangerous Liaison: the Iranian Greens and the West
Nadia Hijab
Jerusalem's Battle of the Graves
David Rosen
Sinner Men
Jayne Lyn Stahl
A Tale of Two Cities
Ralph Nader
King Obesity
Dean Baker
Dysfunctional Democracy
Christopher Brauchli
The Politics of Forgetfulness
Charlotte Laws
Hard Times in Vegas
Dave Lindorff
The Battle for Marjah: Why the US has Already Lost
Harvey Wasserman
The Atomic Abyss
Bouthaina Shaaban
The Decade of the Victory for Freedom and Justice in Palestine
Katya Rodriguez
Tug of War in El Salvador
Website of the Day
Inside Obama's Energy Budget
February 17, 2010
Michael Hudson
Wall Street Moves in for the Kill
Karl Grossman
Obama Goes Nuclear
Nirmal Ghosh
The Tiger's Call
Dean Baker
The Savvy Mr. Blankfein
Russell Mokhiber
The Corporate Hijacking of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial
John V. Walsh
Elie Wiesel's Ignoble Recruits
Martin Lukacs
Canada's Aboriginal Show and Tell
Nouri Gana
Arab Despise Thyself ...
Heather Gray /
K. Rashid Nuri
Grow Your Own: Urban Farming's Challenge to Corporate Agriculture
Daniel Wolff
Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit: a Familiar Strangeness
Website of the Day
Chernobyl: a Photographic Essay
February 16, 2010
Paul Craig Roberts
A Country of Serfs
Forrest Hylton
Students as Spies: Colombia Mimes the CIA
Carl Ginsburg
Less is Less
Jonathan Cook
Arabs of Jaffa Face Settlers as Neighbors
Robert Alvarez
Nukes Aren't the Answer
Deepak Tripathi
A Great Military Triumph? Questions About the Capture of Mullah Baradar
George Wuerthner
Cows, Condos and All the Rest: the Geography of Agriculture and Sprawl in the West
Shamus Cooke
The Great Bi-Partisan Deception
Robert Bryce
Peak Confusion:
Tom Friedman's Twisted Energy Politics
Brian Cloughley
Speaking Badly of Charlie Wilson
Carl Finamore
How to Succeed After Failing
David Rovics
Fighting Shell Oil in Ireland: the Arrest of Pat O'Donnell
Website of the Day
Aid to Israel
February 15, 2010
David Price
Human Terrain Systems Dissenter Resigns, Tells Inside Story of Training's Heart of Darkness
Michael Hudson /
Jeff Sommers
Latvia's Road to Serfdom
Ishmael Reed
My Problem with Hardball
Conn Hallinan
China and India: a Danger in Thin Air
Yvonne Ridley
Operation Moshtarak: a Codeword for Ethnic Cleansing in Afghanistan?
Bill Quigley
A Million Homeless in Haiti
Patrick Cockburn
The Assault on Marjah
Dave Lindorff
Picturing the Dead
David Díaz-Arias
Right Rising in Costa Rica
Stephanie Westbrook
Questioning the "Special Relationship" with Israel
Harvey Wasserman
Our Founders Were Not Fundamentalists
Norman Solomon
Dollars for Death, Pennies for Life
Website of the Day
The World's Oldest Potheads
February 12-14, 2010
Alexander Cockburn
The Goat in the Clearing
Andrew Cockburn
The Economic Velociraptors
Arno J. Mayer
The Treason of the Nobels
Ishmael Reed /
Sapphire
A Dialogue on "Precious"
Ismael Hossein-Zadeh
The Retrogression:
New Phase, Not Just Another Recession
Jonathan Cook
Israel's War on Protest
Gareth Porter
The Taliban Isolated Bin Laden
William Blum
That Which Can Not be Spoken
Jeffrey St. Clair
Fear and Firewood
Saul Landau
Government of Lawyers Spit on Law
John Ross
Mexican Church and State Go Nose to Nose Over Who Can Marry Who
Fran Shor
Dumb Power in the Af-Pak War
Marshall Auerback
Greece Signs Its National Suicide Pact
Dave Lindorff
I Cut My Hair, But I'm Not a Terrorist
Ramzy Baroud
The Useless Logic of Round Numbers
Gary Leupp
Skewing the Himalayan Revolution
Joseph Sher
Health Insurance Death Spiral
David Swanson
Yoo's Weird Lies About Obama
Randall Amster
Empire of the Sunset
David Ker Thomson
Against Canada
Bill Piper
Obama's Drug War Budget: Looking a Lot Like Bush's
Missy Beattie
How Blackwater Built Morale
Farzana Versey
Botulism and Babel: Understanding the Rot in Academia
Dan Bacher
How Water Exports are Killing California Jobs and Salmon
Bill Worf
Fires, Logging and Wilderness in Montana
Christopher Brauchli
Special Offer! Free Cremation!!
Dr. Susan Block
Secret Sexual Fantasies: the Erotic Theater of the Mind
Charles R. Larson
Politics, Corruption and Sex in El Salvador
David Yearsley
A Clavichord Battles Santa Monica
Binoy Kampmark
The Vicious Countryside: Haneke's "The White Ribbon"
Poets' Basement
LaMorticella, Moser and Chaet
Website of the Weekend
Privatizing Public Bison
February 11, 2010
Patrick Cockburn
The Battle for Marjah
Mark Schuller
Uncertain Ground: the Haiti Earthquake and Its Aftermath
Stephen Soldz
The Seven Paragraphs on Torture
Harvey Wasserman
Vermont's Radioactive Nightmare
Stephen Fleischman
How the Corporations Broke America
Ron Jacobs
Ending the War in Afghanistan
Helen Redmond
Haiti and Health Care
Steve Zhou
Ideological Detox and the Muslim Community
Fatemeh Keshavarz Ahmadinejad, the Western Press and the Iranian Green Opposition
Gary Goldstein
The High Cost of Another Failed Star Wars Test
Website of the Day
Love Stinks: Matchmaking for Polluters & Lobbyists
February 10, 2010
Jules Boykoff
Showdown in Vancouver
Paul Craig Roberts
The U.S. is Now a Police State
David Macaray
A Dagger in the Heart of Labor
William Blum
Haiti, Aristide and Ideology
Martine Bulard
Live Long .... If You're Rich
M. Shahid Alam
A Eurocentric Problem
Tolu Olorunda
Making a Killing on Student Loans
Jayne Lyn Stahl
How Much is Too Much Information?
Cecilia Lucas
Don't Ask, Don't Tell, Don't Serve
Eric Walberg
The Great Game Playoff
Website of the Day
Saving Tropical Rainforests
February 9, 2010
Vijay Prashad
Troubles in the Mountains
Bill Quigley
Haiti by the Numbers
Jonathan Cook
Jerusalem Mayor to Raze 200 Palestinian Homes
Shamus Cooke
The Democrats are Coming After Social Security
Robert Jensen
The New York Times, Israel and Ethan Bronner
Laura Flanders
The Discreet Unveiling of a Covert War
Chris Kromm
Who Dat in the New Orleans Mayor's Office?
Dave Lindorff
Mumia Abu-Jamal's Case Stuck in Limbo
George Wuerthner
The Thinning Trap: Fear, Fire and Logging
Belén Fernandez
Check Out That Cuban!
Michael Donnelly
Green After-Birth?
Susie Day
GOP Sells Soul to Pat Robertson
Website of the Day
Goldstone Facts
February 8, 2010
Pam Martens
Wall Street's Killer Instinct Spells Death Knell for Jobs
Heather Gray
The Cruel Insanity of Obama's Agriculture Export Plan
Paul Craig Roberts
Blood Lust and Bragging Rights
Franklin Spinney
Mark-to-Market Pentagon Style
Ralph Nader
Institutionalizing Howard Zinn
Ellen Brown
The World's Greatest Insurance Heist
Sasha Kramer
Hope Rising from the Ashes of Port au Prince
Richard Morse
Who's in Charge of This Country?
Fred Gardner
LaGuardia and the Truth About Marijuana
Binoy Kampmark
Trouble at The Lancet
Michael Winship
Lobbyists Retreat, But Never Surrender
David Michael Green
Just Give Us Some Truth Now
Charles R. Larson
Socialist Blizzard Hits DC
Website of the Day
Markets! Finance!! Scandal!!!
February 5 - 7, 2010
Alexander Cockburn
The Left: Downhill From Greensboro
Paul Craig Roberts
The Free Market Fetish
Forrest Hylton
The Culture of Cocaine
Joanne Mariner
"If You Were in Secret Prisons...:"
The Trial of Aafia Siddiqui
Bill Quigley
Haiti, Still Starving 23 Days Later
Jeffrey St. Clair
Vigilante Justice in the Land of Enchantment
Todd Gordon / Jeffrey R. Webber Consolidating the Coup in Honduras
Joseph Nevins
Bottled Water Syndrome: the Drinking Water Profiteers
Mike Miller
What Do Grassroots Organizers Actually Do When They Organize?
Mark Weisbrot
Why Washington "Cares" About Honduras and Haiti
Alison Weir
The NYT's Ethan Bronner's Conflict With Impartiality
David Swanson
Top 10 Problems with America Assassinating Americans
Missy Beattie
Recall Notices
Jonathan Cook
How
Israel Stole $2 Billion From Palestinian Workers
Richard Morse
Will Clinton Roll With His Pre-Quake Friends in Haiti?
David Ker Thomson
Sects and the City
Benjamin Dangl
Beer Battles
Cal Winslow
Healthcare Workers Savor a Victory
Jim Goodman
Fear of the Organic
Michael Dickinson
What Not to Wear or Say in Turkey
Bouthaina Shaaban
The Arab Community ... the International Community
Don Monkerud
Justice Thomas in Hiding
Ananya Mukherjee-Reed
The Olympics That Will Not Be Televised
Doug Bevington
The Rebirth of Environmentalism
Stephen Martin
Globalization Burning
Charles R. Larson
The Nigerian 419 Scam
David Yearsley
At Last, the Sackbutt Gets Its Due
Kim Nicolini
"Up in the Air:"
a Landscape of Impossible Options
Poets' Basement
Marlin and Farrelly
Website of the Day
CIA Watched as Missionaries Shot Down in Peru
February 4, 2010
Barbara Rhine
Keep What You Have, But Leave the Rest
Barry Lando
Master of Treachery: Kissinger on Iraq
David Macaray
Black Lung Rising
Shamus Cooke
China's Wage Rates for U.S. Workers
P. Sainath
India's Farm Suicides: a 12-Year Saga
Christopher Brauchli
Sammy the Mouth Alito: Chucking Precedent at the Surpeme Court
Ramzy Baroud
Will Israel Target Gaza or Lebanon First?
Suzan Mazur
The Peer Review Prison
Harry Clark
The Invention of the Jewish People
Andy Worthington
Swiss Take Two Gitmo Uighurs
Website of the Day
Selective Compassion
February 3, 2010
Paul Craig Roberts
The Crisis is Not Over
Kathleen Christison
Zionism Laid Bare
Franklin Spinney
The Pentagon Goes Intellectually AWOL
Dean Baker
No Way Out: Roadblocks on the Way to Recovery
Marc Levy
No Medal Jacket
Kathy Kelly
Banning the Homeless in Colorado Springs
Gareth Porter
Talking with the Taliban: US and Karzai Clash
Joshua Frank
Blackwash: How the Coal Ash Industry Manipulated EPA Reports
Rannie Amiri
Saada War Rages On
Gregory Vickrey
Short-Changing the Health Care Debate ... For Now
Website of the Day
Mt. Reagan?
February 2, 2010
Michael Hudson
The Bernanke Disaster
Boadiba
Boadiba's
Earthquake Diary
Chris Floyd
War, Budgets and Blind Ambition
Paul A. Passavant
The Symbolic Politics of the GOP:
State of the Union or Civil War?
Mike Whitney
Bair's Damning Testimony
John Ross
Who's Who in Mexico's Narco Wars?
Jonathan Cook
Israel is Criminalizing Dissent
Susan Galleymore
Wasting Good Waste
Dave Lindorff
Talk Now With the Taliban
Tolu Olorunda
Words as Weapons
Ron Jacobs
I See Hawks and Earthworms
Website of the Day
Cop Watch: Guerrilla Video Primer
February 1, 2010
Michael Hudson
Obama's Junk Economics
Stan Goff
The Murderous Mystique of JSOC: How Secret Becomes Special
Patrick Cockburn
The Case Against Tony Blair
Saul Landau
Universal Disorientation: the Modern Media and Haiti
Dr. Carol Paris, MD
Staying When They Tell You to Leave: What I've Learned Doing Civil Disobedience for Single Payer
Marshall Auerback
A Proposal for Genuine Financial Reform
Harvey Wasserman
Will Obama Guarantee a New Nuclear Reactor War?
Johanna Berrigan
Destruction, Hope and Faith in Port au Prince
Peter Gelderloos
More Wood for the Fire
David Michael Green
An Ugly Week for the Human Race (and Other Living Things)
Martha Rosenberg
If You Liked Bovine Growth Hormone, You'll Love Beta Agonists
Kevin Zeese
Health Care: a Better Idea
Alan Farago
Where Nature Saves the World ... From Us
Website of the Day
Demolishing Flint
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March 4, 2010
America's Sexual Burlesque
The Brave New World of Sexual Addiction
By RAYMOND J. LAWRENCE
American befuddlement over matters of sex is on the increase, in spite of the fact that one can hardly imagine the subject becoming more befuddling to the people of this country than it already is.
Sex addiction is the latest star in America’s sexual burlesque. Sex addiction has of course been a malaprop from its first usage. Addiction was originally and properly defined as a physiological dependence on a substance to which the body had grown accustomed, such as alcohol, nicotine, heroin and various other drugs. The cure was to end the dependency and abstain from further use of the substance in order to avoid a recurrence of the physiological dependency. These treatments do work and many people have been cured of their addictions and never returned to the addictive substance.
Applying such a metaphor to sexual pleasure creates a misleading and ominous innuendo. Sex is not an addictive substance. It’s a human interaction on which the survival of the species is dependent. It is also possibly the most pleasurable and sought after activity known to humankind, and arguably an experience no one should be deprived of. Most normal people consider more rather than less sexual pleasure to be a major objective in life.
Following the substance abuse mode implies that the only cure for an addiction to sexual pleasure would be a celibate or monastic life, a complete renunciation of the alleged addictive sexual pleasure.
The very idea of sexual pleasure as a harmful addiction plays precisely into the hands of one of the most perverse aspects of Western religious history, namely the teaching that sex is a work of the devil redeemed only by the act of procreation itself. Reliance on the notion of sex addiction in counseling and psychiatric treatment is ominous.
Christianity as a world religion has much to commend it on balance. Nevertheless, its posture toward sexual pleasure has been abysmal. In that respect it should be noted that Christianity, of all the major world religions, is the only one to cast sexual pleasure in such a negative light. Never mind that Christianity’s distaff side - Protestants and others - challenged such negativity toward sexual pleasure. They were eventually and unfortunately drowned out in the debate. It is no coincidence that currently the most Christian of nations, the U.S., is also the most negative toward sexual pleasure. (And at the same time the most confused sexually.) Europe as gone blessedly post-Christian.
We must suspect that the sex addiction proponents unconsciously wish to rebuild something like the medieval Christian social order where virtually every cultured and literate person was bereft of sexual pleasure for life, save for sexual pleasure in the service of procreation
Some psychiatrists are now getting into the fray, offering treatment for sex addiction. However, the Bible of psychiatry, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), is currently being prepared for its 5th edition, and is wisely declining to introduce sex addiction to its manual. It does, however, come close by introducing the category of hypersexuality as a mental disorder. This neologism is the editors’ own special, and arguably less troublesome, substitute for sex addiction. But as the saying goes, it walks like the proverbial sex addiction duck.
The pundits are now weighing in on the new DSM 5. Allan Frances in The Los Angeles Times is worried that philanderers and rapists will now be able to claim mental illness as a defense of their anti-social behavior and thereby escape punishment. George Will in The Washington Post astutely raises the problem of medicalizing the assessment of character, which he unaccountably blames on liberals. I thought I was a liberal, but I’m as concerned as Will about defining character or the lack thereof as a burden of psychiatric diagnosticians. And by extension, character as an expected outcome of proper medication.
So now according to the working version of the new DSM-5, psychiatrists will be able to assess whether one is having too much sex, or even whether one simply wants too much sex. Or too little. They will presumably have some kind of measuring rod to determine what is too much or too little.
This new project, of assessing who might be wanting or getting too much sexual pleasure, or too little, should create many more jobs for psychiatrists. We’ve been needing something to improve the job market. Maybe this will do it. Perhaps psychiatry will now join hands with the worst elements of Christianity and recreate the medieval Christian dream, a world where the only sexual pleasure allowable is that accidentally associated with the desire to procreate.
Raymond J. Lawrence is an Episcopal cleric,
recently retired Director of Pastoral Care, New York Presbyterian
Hospital, and author of numerous opinion pieces in newspapers
in the U.S., and author of the recently published, Sexual
Liberation: The Scandal of Christendom (Praeger). He can be reached at: raymondlawrence@mac.com
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