Discussion of words, kink, and non-sexual kink
Discussion of words, kink, and non-sexual kink
Adult sex education - by Jane (content & marketing) & Peter (websites & publishing). #SexEducation #sexuality #intimacy - https://www.nosper.com/nosper-books/
Bonus SubPoll involving definitions of kink
Poll involving definitions of kink
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Michael HERTER - Echoes of a Distant Dawn (Touching Emotional Orchestral Love Theme)
"Touching Emotional Orchestral Love Theme"
Human Sexual Evolution: The Transformation of Intimacy, Desire, and Identity in the Modern World by Behzad Ghorbani, 2025
Sex, love, and intimacy have never been static concepts. Across human history, our understanding of relationships and desire has evolved in response to shifting cultural, technological, and biological forces.
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#nonfiction
#SexualEvolution
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#love
#intimacy
How to understand interracial intimacies in a colonial context, when they mainly developed "under the administrative radar," thus leaving few traces? Following the trajectory of one such family in New Caledonia with ethnographic and archival work, Adrian Muckle and Benoît Trépied reflect on the possibilities and limits of such intimate relationships, whose invisibility reveals tells us much about the limitations of colonial control.
Adrian MUCKLE & Benoît TRÉPIED, Under the Colonial Radar? The History and Memory of an “Invisible” Mixed-Race Household in New Caledonia
https://doi.org/10.1017/ahsse.2024.20
#AnnalesinEnglish #annaleshss #histodons @histodons #newcaledonia #frenchempire #colonialism #interracial #intimacy #anthropology
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Michael HERTER - Echoes of a Distant Dawn (Touching Emotional Orchestral Love Theme)
"Touching Emotional Orchestral Love Theme"
"We’re building relationships with code"
Blimey! And no-one is worried about this?
"Having compelling AI companions for work, to support mental health issues or as a romantic partner throws up some tricky ethical issues"
Andy Spence's blog post https://wrk3.substack.com/p/the-emotional-economy is quite a read, although perhaps not as poignant as this other one
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/ai-spiritual-delusions-destroying-human-relationships-1235330175/
Seriously, where is the limit? What's wrong with us?
"Mingus: Charlie Mingus"; a 1968 documentary film directed by Thomas Reichman >
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00224499.2025.2479197 Perceived Impact of Psychedelics on Sexual, Gender, and Intimate Relationship Dynamics: A Mixed-Methods Investigation (Kruger, et al, 2025) #sex #psychedelics #ketamine #mdma #gender #psychedelic #psychedelicresearch #relationships #mentalhealth #sexuality #intimacy
François #Bayrou is the current Prime Minister of #France.
In 1996, violence was denounced in the elite catholic school of his constituency. He made an official visit as both the then Minister of National Education and a member of the National Assembly for a seat in Béarn (the province of the school). He told the regional press: "The people of Béarn felt these attacks with a sense of pain and a sense of injustice. […] All the checks were favourable and positive."
"What happens when we put love and intimacy at the center of our understanding of privacy, and what are the consequences of their disavowal, in favor of a more familiar technocratic definition of privacy-as-absense? What role does our deep desire for love and belonging, and our concomitant fear of shame and rejection, have to do with the (mis)direction of tech capital and the current, warped shape of the tech industry and its products?"
Enjoy the clarity of 40 minutes with @Mer__edith: https://media.ccc.de/v/38c3-feelings-are-facts-love-privacy-and-the-politics-of-intellectual-shame
This class is about making things happen. It's about writing dynamic scenes that move the plot & reveal character. Many writers swear by conflict, but positive moments of interpersonal connection or intimacy can do the same work. We'll practice both ways.
8 weeks, Wednesdays, 1/22/25 - 3/12/25, 10am-12pm CST, Online (live meetings)
#WritingCommunity #WritingClass #AmWriting #WritingConversations #DynamicScenes #Intimacy&Conflict #WritingCraft
Today, in a very special episode of #SecondAmendment & #GunCulture ...
I am travelling in South Africa, Botswana & Zimbabwe over Christmas! I will return to post again from 28th December. #SexEducation #sexuality #intimacy
I usually spend this time of the year with my family in the north, visiting my brother in Hamburg. Only this year I won't be there because my wife is about to give birth to our first child.
If you happen to be in Hamburg for the CCC make sure to see the wonderful @Mer__edith and her talk about privacy, intimacy and love