Sex dominated the headlines this week, including one sexual scandal, the CEO and his mistress at the Cold Play concert, which we didn't really bother with much.
We discussed the Verboten becoming Nicht Verboten.
And the world entering the nuclear age.
Trump took us back to the story of privilege and Hebephilia and Ephebophilia.1
The sad, really, state of affairs for American Men.
The big three met, with one new player.
Flannery O'Connor gave some reading advice.
I hope you don’t have friends who recommend Ayn Rand to you. The fiction of Ayn Rand is as low as you can get re fiction. I hope you picked it up off the floor of the subway and threw it in the nearest garbage pail. She makes Mickey Spillane look like Dostoevsky.
Flannery O'Connor
Out of one jungle war, and into another.
Cy Young set an enduring record.
Cy Young of the Cleveland Naps became the only Major League Baseball pitcher to record 500 wins, in a 5–2 win over the Washington Senators.
MAGA just won't let Epstein go.
We pose a query:
We posted this today. After I did, something occurred to me.
Lex Anteinternet: Thursday, July 19, 1945. Bretton Woods ratified.:
Able Seaman Chadwick trimming the beard of Engine Room Artificer Jones, aboard HMAS Hobart.
Anybody notice anything interesting regarding these (Australian) sailors that we'd be unlikely to see in photographs of young men, at least American young men, today?
Bad news:
Footnotes:
Eh? What are those terms.
Hebephilia is the strong, persistent sexual interest by adults in pubescent children who are in early adolescence, typically ages 11–14. It's a controversial category and is not universally accepted by psychologists on the basis that, in their view, most men are attracted to some degree by pubescent females.
Ephebophilia is a primary sexual interest in mid-to-late adolescents, generally ages 15 to 19 and showing Tanner stages 4 to 5 of physical development. Obviously, if Hebephilia is somewhat controversial, Ephebophilia is as well.
Basically, things break down as follows:
By Bruce The Deus, Andreas Mokros - Own work based on Andreas Mokros (2017), “The Chronophilia Conundrum: Continuum or Epiphenomenon?”, in archive of Sex Behaviour, DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-016-0882-4, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=144677942
At least so far, everyone agrees, seemingly, that anything below the Hebephilia category is flat out weird.
Irrespective of whether the two categories should be in the DSM, which is where the debate lies, in the US older men dabbling below age 18 is illegal, with some peculiar exceptions we won't go into, and most people regard it as flat out immoral, even now. It seems to be the last aspect of sexual morality retained from our Christian heritage.
We've been squeamish about dealing with it here, but it probably needed noting. A lot of what Western Society has been dealing with in terms of sexual scandals in the last thirty years actual deals with adult men being attracted to teenagers, which isn't pedophilia as its commonly claimed to be.
That doesn't excuse it, and maybe noting it is pedantic.
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