I’ve been active on this blog since chanson reviewed my gay, Mormon novel Ockham’s Razor last October. I will be presenting a paper about my novel at this year’s Sunstone Symposium titled “Two Paradigms for ‘Gay.’” (Half of my presentation will also concern Jonathan Langford’s novel No Going Back–also reviewed…
Category: Sex and Gender
Mormons love them some porn
We had a good discussion earlier about Mormons and porn here, but I just caught this news article and thought everyone on MSP would enjoy the graphic: Via: Online MBA Two interesting tidbits – highest porn consumption day: Sunday. State with highest subscription rate to porn websites per capita: Utah….
What’s with Mormons and porn?
LDS Inc. is at it again – fighting porn. Apparently they have set up a new website for porn addiction: http://combatingpornography.org/cp/eng/ So, the only reference I can find that actually says anything about pornography being unhealthy on the page for individuals is to the work of Victor Cline, who appears…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Personal Entrance/Exit Stories!
This week we have had a bonanza of personal conversion and deconversion stories! Naturally, you probably noticed Saganist’s story posted here yesterday. But there are more! Check out the Urban Koda’s funny story When I knew…. Greenish Blue reposted a fascinating mini-series recounting his personal history with Mormonism and belief….
Effects of Pornography are Negligible?
References to pornography in General Conference address have coincided with the availability of pornography, as this graph illustrates: While that certainly won’t surprise anyone, the scientific evidence does seem to suggest that pornography causes no harm whatsoever. I caught this article in my science news today reiterating that very point….
Mormon leadership comes out in support of (some) basic rights for (some) LGBT Utahns
Video from the public hearing, featuring Michael Otterson, Eric Ethington (local blogger/activist and genuinely nice guy), Deeda Seed, and Jonas from the all-Brazilian America Forever bigot brigade: Text of LDS statement after the break.
BYU Eliminating its Women’s Research Institute
The Women’s Research Institute of BYU (also known as the WRI) is being eliminated effective Jan., 2010. As is the usual fashion when the Church wants to announce something potentially controversial, the “press release” announcing this change was buried as an archive on BYU’s website. Most in the Bloggernacle only…
Johnny Lingo! Johnny Lingo!
Illustrations by Sister Mary Lisa Do you remember the first time you ever watched Johnny Lingo? I imagine if you’re typical of most of us that were raised Mormon from childhood, the memory of that first viewing has been lost, mercifully, in the bazillions of subsequent times you were subjected…
And you know what happens next… (O.H. continues)
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great advice, but cover your ears
I was chatting with a colleague the other day about a book I reviewed for an academic journal when Lewis R. Rambo’s name came up (one of the books drew rather heavily on some of his research). As soon as Dr. Rambo’s name came up, my colleague told me he…