I will have to take a Publication break on Viktor-Leberecht.com until Christmas due to illness. Exhaustion from long workdays and a cold were finally joined by a lumbago, so my doctor has prescribed me sick. I will be on sick-leave until 21st of December and there will be no publication probably till after christmas. In …read more
A lot of women want to “reclaim” the term slut. I do not think this has a chance to work. The term should simply be dropped by sex-positive people. To re-claim something, you first have to have owned it before it was claimed by other s from whom you now want to re-claim it. But …read more
When a book like Sex at Dawn 1 by Christopher Ryan (PhD) and his wife Cacilda Jethá (MD), becomes a New York Times bestseller, gets praised as “most important book about human sexuality since Kinsey” and is showered with awards around the world, that is already some indication that it might be worth reading. If …read more
We all know by now that the title “All in” of the book by Paula Broadwell about General David Petraeus was not referring to the old poker phrase. But what many do not know: Petraeus – in some way – just continued a military traditon from World War II Bomber pilots of the US Air …read more
http://m.facebook.com/intifadat.almar2a?id=279245495439614&refsrc=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fintifadat.almar2a&_rdr I usually do not post just a link, but this Arabian Facebook initiative “The uprising of women in the Arab world” I think is great. Arabian women stand up for their rights to be what they want to be – modern or tradional – but in any case self-determined and – that seems to …read more
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/06/world/middleeast/egyptian-vigilantes-crack-down-on-abuse-of-women.html
A critical article about polyamory by Amy Shiner was recently published in the Huffington Post. Amy Shiner is a highly acclaimed author in the polyamory scene. She raises some important questions about the polyamorous way of life, that she sums up under the heading “The Deli Approach to polyamory.” The central criticism of Amy Shiner: …read more