There is a lot of popular attention to help children with attention deficit/hyperactivity or other learning problems, but adults may suffer from the same difficulties. The limitations that trouble such

Different people have different ideas about how much freedom is desirable, and when in the lifespan freedom should begin. Traditionally, children were considered the property of parents, so parents had

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The word “hysteria” commonly refers to irrational feelings or behavior, whether directed toward some specific stimulus or free-floating hysteria toward multiple possible stimuli. Hysteria is often associated

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An important question that should be faced by libertarians, anarchists, and anyone else interested in freedom of speech is: where does voluntary persuasion end, and coercive deception begin? The question

A polyamorous family consists of more than two adults and may have several children who are not necessarily related to each other biologically. What makes a family polyamorous is sexual non-exclusion.

The belief that sexual “seduction” of children is usually seriously harmful was popularized by Freud over 100 years ago, based on his observations of 18 hysterical patients (1). Freud’s observations were

“She was very controlling, very manipulative. She ruled like a dictator…When I got to high school and learned about [Hitler], I thought, Oh my God, he must be related to my mother.” (1) Sexual abuse of

Whenever someone defends nudity, the traditional assumption is that the writer is probably a bad person: possibly a sex maniac, and maybe even a devil-worshiper. Conversely, when someone criticizes nudity,

One of the most dangerous things about the Internet is that common citizens are becoming too well-informed. In the past knowledge was a privilege of the rich, since all books were hand-written and hence

Everybody has moral beliefs or judgments about what sexual conduct is right or wrong. Some of those beliefs become encoded into laws that everyone is expected to obey, on pain of punishment. Why do some

Table salt (sodium chloride) has gotten a lot of bad press in recent years, due to the discovery that high sodium intake is associated with cardio-vascular disease. The average person consumes far more

I was born in the NYC area and graduated from the University of Wisconsin. Philosophy was my main subject of study but my official major was in the department of French and Italian. I worked as a child