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  • Traits of the sexually disciplined mind (it’s okay to have sexual intellectual limitations)
    Sexually intellectual genuineness is gorgeous, just like the ceramic/sculptural royal masterpieces that myself and my partners (off-screen and on-screen are.) I am sexually disciplined. I refuse to be sexually undisciplined. I am sexually meat (mature and seasoned), not sexually milk (immature and unseasoned.) Be and stay a sexually good neighbor or a sexually Good Samaritan in the poetic and profound sense with and without sex! Apply this critical thinking virtue to sex: “Intellectual Humility: Having Knowledge of Ignorance
    We will begin with the fair-minded trait of intellectual humility:
    Intellectual humility may be defined as having a consciousness of the limits of one's knowledge, including a sensitivity to circumstances in which one's native egocentrism is likely to function self-deceptively. This entails being aware of one's biases, one's prejudices, the limitations of one's viewpoint, and the extent of one's ignorance. Intellectual humility depends on recognizing that one should not claim more than one actually knows. It does not imply spinelessness or submissiveness. It implies the lack of intellectual pretentiousness, boastfulness, or conceit, combined with insight into the logical foundations, or lack of such foundations, of one's beliefs.” Also apply this critical thinking virtue when it comes to sex: “Fair-mindedness entails a consciousness of the need to treat all viewpoints alike, without reference to one's own feelings or selfish interests, or the feelings or selfish interests of one's friends, company, community, or nation. It implies adherence to intellectual standards (such as accuracy and sound logic), uninfluenced by one's own advantage or the advantage of one's group.
    To be fair-minded is to strive to treat every viewpoint relevant to a situation in an unbiased, unprejudiced way. It entails a consciousness of the fact that we, by nature, tend to prejudge the views of others, placing them into "favorable" (agrees with us) and "unfavorable" (disagrees with us) categories. We tend to give less weight to contrary views than to our own. This is especially true when we have selfish reasons for opposing views. For example, the manufacturers of asbestos advocated its use in homes and schools, and made large profits on its use, even though they knew for many years that the product was carcinogenic. They ignored the viewpoint and welfare of the innocent users of their product. If we can ignore the potentially harmful effects of a product we manufacture, we can reap the benefits that come with large profits without experiencing pangs of conscience. Thus, fair-mindedness is especially important when the situation calls on us to consider the point of view of those who welfare is in conflict with our short-term vested interest.”
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    1 hr 1 min
  • Religion is a lie! July 30th, 2022
    "1. NATIONALIST, NOT UNIVERSALIST
    • Reject a Christianity that privileges people groups based on race (as in apartheid and separate development) or by ethnicity and military occupation.
    • Reject a Christianity that builds walls; that is xenophobic and Islamophobic, that expels refugees, migrants or supports ethnic cleansing in the name of ‘our people.’
    • Reject a Christianity that promotes Christian Zionism, antisemitism or one that fuels the seeds of genocide.
    • Reject a Christianity that sustains the war machine and promotes the right to arms in the name of national security.
    • 2. DISCRIMINATORY, NOT INCLUSIVE
      • Reject a Christianity that discriminates people based on their identity, race, gender, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability; that prefers able-bodied people over physically disabled, that considers autistic, Down’s and palsied children or albinism as a curse of God.
      • Reject a Christianity that is homophobic, condemning people for their sexual orientation; where heterosexual white men are ideal; where women and people of other identities are less than; where white privilege is seen as deserving merit in the face of systemic injustice.
      • Reject an anti-feminist Christianity that actively subordinates women asserting authoritarian male headship and one that denies women leadership in churches.
      • 3. PROSPERITY VS THE POOR
        • Reject a Christianity that preaches prosperity theology; that makes the poor feel unworthy, that considers them lazy and unmotivated while setting up on a pedestal the wealthy as a sign of God’s blessing and favour.
        • Reject a theology that promises supernatural healing, wealth and well-being as a transaction with God dependent on your faith level.
        • Reject a seed-faith theology whose harvest builds lavish homes, buys luxury cars, funds private jets of preachers, televangelist marketers and builds glass cathedrals appealing to a cosy, middle-class faith.
        • 4. LITERALIST NOT REASONABLE
          • Reject a Christianity that is literalist; that believes the Bible is the actual written, words of God. ‘If the Bible says it, I believe it.’
          • Reject a selective reading of the text to suit theologies of prejudice, fear and rules. Stay away from churches that do not encourage the critical study of the Bible; that ignores context, experience, tradition and reason.
          • Reject a Christianity that introduces and defends injustice on a literal reading of the text as we had and continue to have in the slavery of Black and colonised peoples, subordination of women, exclusion of women in leadership, separate development and apartheid states, in the abusive rulership of the earth; in discriminatory theologies of homophobia, islamophobia; biblical Zionism and in the right to arms.
          • Reject a Christianity that idolizes the Bible above the One of whom the Bible speaks of; that obsess with dissecting the text out of context and doing theology devoid of a spirit of love and grace which brings life and liberty — where the God of the Good News is lost in the text."
          • "Within the church, there are Orwellian tactics such as fake news, disinformation, using culture wars for their world domination advantages, misinformation, spiritual immaturity (milk) of most believers, mob speak, doublethink, denialism (denial of truth), double speak, the silence culture, the silence of necrophilia, ritual abuses, the unperson culture, propaganda, draconian control, brutal policies, the hypocrisy culture, manipulation (past, present, and future), unproven fables, ruthless surveillance, attending the most elite schools, containing the most elite cultural backgrounds, removal of the necessary information, newspeak, the chosen people complex (the superiority complex and the supremacy complex), mean-spiritedness, lazies and evil-spiritedness." -Me

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            47 min
          • Sex industry news part 2 (Final Part)
            "SYNONYMS FOR well-seasoned as a morally excellent, moderate lover that perfectly describes me:

            Compare Synonyms

            • appetizing
            • delectable
            • delightful
            • distinctive
            • enjoyable
            • enticing
            • exquisite
            • heavenly
            • Luscious
            • piquant
            • pleasant
            • rich
            • savory
            • spicy
            • sweet
            • tasty
            • tempting
            • yummy
            • choice
            • dainty
            • darling
            • divine in a secular way
            • good
            • lush
            • nice
            • adorable
            • ambrosial
            • delish
            • fit for royalty
            • gratifying
            • mellow
            • mouthwatering
            • nectarous
            • palatable
            • rare
            • sapid
            • scrumptious
            • tasteful
            • titillating
            • toothsome
            • well-prepared
            • My sex life is free of asceticism, recklessness, and overindulgence. 
            • My sex life has needful flows, needful streams, needful oozing, and needful movements.
            • I indulge in a wholesome series of casual sexual relationships with good men, good women, good non-binary adults, good genderless adults, and good LGBTQIA+ adults without committing myself to anyone. 
            • My sex life is full of Wise or Right Views, Wise or Right Intentions, Wise or Right Actions, Wise or Right Speech (Communication), Wise or Right Livelihood, Wise or Right Efforts, Wise or Right Mindfulness, and Wise or Right Concentration (Meditation)."
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              1 hr 11 min
            • Pornography mythology
              "Myth #4: Porn is only for ABLE-BODIED, young, straight men

              Continuing along the lines of diversity, we had to mention disability and this IS an area where the industry still needs to do some work.

              FACT: Yes, the adult movie business seriously under-represents the disabled community yet there ARE performers who are changing this.

              Andrew Gurza, for example, has Spastic Quadriplegic Cerebral Palsy and uses a power wheelchair but has starred in a couple of gay pornos.

              And there are others too, Lyric Seal (another wheelchair user) works with queer porn companies to produce disabled content.

              And let’s not forget Long Jeanne Silver, the legendary amputee porn star of the 70s.

              Often fetishized, it would be nice to start seeing some more normalized pornos featuring a wider range of disabilities.

              Myth #5: Porn = Sex education

              One of the most common complaints about porn is that it can give sex a bad rep.

              Parents bemoan the fact that their teenagers can get access to porn and that this gives them unrealistic expectations of what sex is all about.

              And whilst we can whole heartedly agree that this can indeed be true, there are two major points here that are being missed.

              1. Porn CAN be educational
              2. On the whole, porn isn’t MEANT to be educational.
              3. FACT: Firstly, if you’re anything like us here at the Red Light Network then you’ll know that sex education at school is pretty rubbish and falls way short or what we actually needed and wanted to know.

                Porn, whether that was a blue movie or a top shelf magazine, filled in some of those gaps. And I think we all knew where the blurred lines of reality vs fantasy lay.

                Secondly, most porn isn’t intended for a curious teenage audience so the argument that it isn’t educational is a bit like complaining that the Fast & Furious franchise doesn’t do a good job at promoting driver education!!

                Myths About Sex in Porn

                Porn can often make sex look pretty easy but as most of us know, the reality can often be far more awkward.

                But PORN doesn’t have to represent reality, it’s meant to arouse so just as we wouldn’t expect a Hollywood movie to depict the banality of real life, we want our adult films to show us the action WITHOUT the dull stuff, right?

                So, we wanted to look at some more myths about what goes on in porn and how this compares to reality.

                Myth #7: Women who call for a repairman REALLY only want sex

                Our first Sex in Porn myth is a classic plot scenario that has been used in adult movies since (at least) the 1980s.

                Porn has long perpetuated the myth that women who need a helping hand are always in the market for something ‘extra’!

                This includes plumbers, copier guys, gardeners and delivery drivers.

                Consider this porn stereotype to be a complete myth.

                Fact: When a client calls for professional help, 99.99% of the time, the only tool they want to see is the one you use to fix the problem with!"

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                2 hr 3 min
              4. Porn Stars Are All In on President Bernie Sanders
                “Evans, who was once subjected to a very strange encounter with President Trump, said she feels Sanders is the most “sensible candidate” because of his plans for “health care and education,” and she isn’t nearly as high on the rest of the pool. “Bloomberg is a Trump in sheep’s clothing, and it would end up being eight more years of the same crap we’ve already had. Elizabeth Warren, at one point, had created a bill that would’ve potentially taken away the bank accounts of sex workers across the country, under the guise of preventing sex trafficking. I’m tired of seeing politicians use the label of ‘sex trafficking’ to garner attention for their platforms, when they don’t understand that many of the people that are labeled as trafficked are, in fact, consensual sex workers.”
                The bill Evans is referring to is called the End Banking for Human Traffickers Act, which Warren co-sponsored with Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) and which would have enabled banks to discriminate against virtually all sex workers by targeting their transactions. (It never passed the Senate.) The Massachusetts senator has since changed her position on sex workers, voicing her support for decriminalization and backing the SAFE Sex Workers Study Act, a House bill aiming to study the effects of FOSTA-SESTA, a pair of so-called anti-sex-trafficking bills that have been criticized as making sex workers’ lives more perilous.”
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                15 min
              5. To hell with conservative theology
                1) How can you say your perspective on truth is any more valid than anyone else's? Truth is a personal and social construct, and it's intolerant to impose your exclusive views on me. 4) It's narrow-minded and intolerant to claim Jesus is the only way to God. No religion has the whole truth—including yours.”
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                23 min
              6. Sex industry news part 1
                “Jessica Starling: Porn piracy is a form of digital sexual abuse as well. If someone sends you a nude for your eyes only and you upload it for others to see, even if you paid for it, you have committed digital sexual abuse. If you view that content knowing it wasn’t posted consensually, you have participated in digital sexual abuse. This means that the way many people are used to consuming porn, [viewing pirated content on tube sites or other venues] is not only unethical. It is also a violation. People often get angry when I tell them that. I understand that no one wants to be an abuser, that sounds so terrible. However, the truth is that our culture doesn’t value the consent of women, and especially sex workers.
                Charlotte Sartre: In public conversations on ethical porn consumption, it’s important for people to consider the sources of the things they’re hearing. That information should come from the people directly involved in creating adult content, not politicians or outside organizations who think sex work and sex trafficking are the same things. Nothing about us without us.
                Jessica Starling: People outside the industry have little to no understanding of how we actually operate. It’s dumbfounding to think that someone with no experience or knowledge of the basics of the industry could or would attempt to set guidelines for how to run it or consume its products. Imagine that happening in literally any other industry. I’m struggling to think of an example. It would be laughable how much they get wrong — if it wasn’t so dangerous to us.
                Kate Kennedy: Commentary on the sex industry by people outside of it is about as useful as a screen door on a submarine. We have been screaming at the mainstream media to take us seriously, to listen to what we have to say, for decades. But the voices of ignorant do-gooders unceasingly and inevitably drown us out. And now we are drowning [under restrictions].
                Mastercard and Visa’s decision to pull services from Pornhub following one op-ed by a middle-aged white male journalist who has made a career of exploiting the vulnerable for his own narratives is unconscionable. Now, I’m forced to take the side of a site that has done nothing but steal from me and my coworkers for years to preserve all of our First Amendment rights.
                Jessica Starling: Pornhub was hosting millions of videos, non-consensual or pirated, that should never have been uploaded. But the ideology behind the recent actions taken against them promotes the notion that porn can never be ethical. These outside actors’ ultimate goal is the removal of sex from the internet, and the eradication of all sex work by any means necessary.
                Allie Oops: The people who are going to be hurt the most by this move, [ostensibly meant to improve the ethicality of porn distribution and consumption] will be the most marginalized queer and indie performers, the alternative models and people with non-normative bodies.
                Charlotte Sartre: Where will the porn industry be hit next? It’s scary.”
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                52 min
              7. 20 reasons to abandon Christianity part 2 final part (reasons 7-20) July 27th, 2022
                “19. The Bible, Christianity's basic text, is riddled with contradictions.
                There are a number of glaring contradictions in the Bible, in both the Old and New Testaments, and including some within the same books. A few examples:
                ". . . God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man."
                (James:1:13)
                "And it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt Abraham."
                (Genesis 22:1)
                ". . . for I am merciful, saith the Lord, and I will not keep anger forever."
                (Jeremiah 3:12)
                "Ye have kindled a fire in mine anger, which shall burn forever. Thus saith the Lord."
                (Jeremiah 17:4)
                "If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true."
                (John 5:31, J.C. speaking)
                "I am one that bear witness of myself . . ."
                (John 8:18, J.C. speaking)
                and last but not least:
                "I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved."
                (Genesis 32:30)
                "No man hath seen God at any time."
                (John 1:18)
                "And I [God] will take away mine hand, and thou shalt see my back parts . . ."
                (Exodus 33:23)
                Christian apologists typically attempt to explain away such contradictions by claiming that the fault lies in the translation, and that there were no contradictions in the original text. It's difficult to see how this could be so, given how direct many biblical contradictions are; but even if these Christian apologetics held water, it would follow that every part of the Bible should be as suspect as the contradictory sections, thus reinforcing the previous point: that the Bible is not a reliable guide to Christ's words.
                20. Christianity borrowed its central myths and ceremonies from other ancient religions.
                The ancient world was rife with tales of virgin births, miracle-working saviors, tripartite gods, gods taking human form, gods arising from the dead, heavens and hells, and days of judgment. In addition to the myths, many of the ceremonies of ancient religions also match those of that syncretic latecomer, Christianity. To cite but one example (there are many others), consider Mithraism, a Persian religion predating Christianity by centuries. Mithra, the savior of the Mithraic religion and a god who took human form, was born of a virgin; he belonged to the holy trinity and was a link between heaven and Earth; and he ascended into heaven after his death. His followers believed in heaven and hell, looked forward to a day of judgment, and referred to Mithra as "the Light of the World." They also practiced baptism (for purification purposes) and ritual cannibalism—the eating of bread and the drinking of wine to symbolize the eating and drinking of the god's body and blood. Given all this, Mithra's birthday should come as no surprise: December 25th; this event was, of course, celebrated by Mithra's followers at midnight.
                Mithraism is but the most striking example of the appearance of these myths and ceremonies prior to the advent of Christianity. They appear—in more scattered form—in many other pre-Christian religions.”
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                51 min
              8. 20 reasons to abandon Christianity part 1 (Reasons 1-7)
                “6. Christianity breeds authoritarianism.
                Given that Christians claim to have the one true faith, to have a book that is the Word of God, and (in many cases) to receive guidance directly from God, they feel little or no compunction about using force and coercion to enforce "God's Will" (which they, of course, interpret and understand). Given that they believe (or pretend) that they're receiving orders from the Almighty (who would cast them into hell should they disobey), it's little wonder that they feel no reluctance, and in fact are eager, to intrude into the most personal aspects of the lives of nonbelievers. This is most obvious today in the area of sex, with Christians attempting to deny women the right to abortion and to mandate near-useless abstinence-only sex "education" in the public schools. It's also obvious in the area of education, with Christians attempting to force biology teachers to teach their creation myth (but not those of Hindus, Native Americans, et al.) in place of (or as being equally valid as) the very well established theory of evolution. But the authoritarian tendencies of Christianity reach much further than this.
                Up until well into the 20th century in the United States and other Christian countries (notably Ireland), Christian churches pressured governments into passing laws forbidding the sale and distribution of birth control devices, and they also managed to enact laws forbidding even the description of birth control devices. This assault on free speech was part and parcel of Christianity's shameful history of attempting to suppress "indecent" and "subversive" materials (and to throw their producers in jail or burn them alive). This anti-free speech stance of Christianity dates back centuries, with the cases of Galileo Galilei and Giordano Bruno (who was burnt alive) being good illustrations of it. Perhaps the most colorful example of this intrusive Christian tendency toward censorship is the Catholic Church's Index of Prohibited Books, which dates from the 16th century and which was abandoned only in the latter part of the 20th century—not because the church recognized it as a crime against human freedom, but because it could no longer be enforced (not that it was ever systematically enforced—that was too big a job even for the Inquisition).
                Christian authoritarianism extends, however, far beyond attempts to suppress free speech; it extends even to attempts to suppress freedom of belief. In the 15th century, under Ferdinand and Isabella at about the time of Columbus's discovery of the New World, Spain's Jews were ordered either to convert to Christianity or to flee the country; about half chose exile, while those who remained, the "Conversos," were favorite targets of the Inquisition. A few years later, Spain's Muslims were forced to make a similar choice.
                This Christian hatred of freedom of belief—and of individual freedom in general—extends to this day. Up until the late 19th century in England, atheists who had the temerity to openly advocate their beliefs were jailed. Even today in many parts of the United States laws still exist that forbid atheists from serving on juries or from holding public office. And it's no mystery what the driving force is behind laws against victimless "crimes" such as nudity, sodomy, fornication, cohabitation, and prostitution.
                If your nonintrusive beliefs or actions are not in accord with Christian "morality," you can bet that Christians will feel completely justified—not to mention righteous—in poking their noses (often in the form of state police agencies) into your private life.”
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                24 min
              9. My beautiful and wholesome relationship with my sexuality (July 25th, 2022)
                "What are the types of sexualities?
                Abrosexual

                An abrosexual person is someone with fluid sexuality, whose sexuality and preferences may change throughout their lives. Different levels of sexual (and romantic) feelings through time are very common—and sometimes people identify their sexuality as "fluid"—but the distinction for an abrosexual person is that these periods of change can happen quickly and with different intensities. It can also look like changing one's actual sexual orientation.

                There's no limitation or norm regarding an abrosexual person's orientation, but it often shifts between two to three sexualities in regular or random cycles, Katherin Winnick, a sex coach at LetsTalkSex.net, has told Cosmo.

                Allosexual

                Allosexual simply means a person who experiences any kind of sexual attraction—so it covers sexualities on this list that don't fall under asexuality. The asexual community has called attention to the privilege inherent in this identity since it's considered the "norm" sexuality.

                Androsexual

                There are a few definitions of androsexuality, but the most common is "a person who is attracted to individuals on the masculine side of the gender spectrum," Dr. Jay Irwin, associate professor of sociology at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, has told Cosmo. "Sometimes this is interpreted as individuals who are attracted to cisgender men (that is, people who were assigned male at birth and also identify as a man), but that binary-based definition is typically too narrow for how individuals who identify as androsexual see their sexuality."

                So it may mean, for example, that an androsexual person is attracted to aspects of masculinity regardless of one's sex assigned at birth, including physical appearance, behavior, smell, and so on. A lesser-used definition of androsexual is someone who is attracted to nonbinary people.

                Asexual

                Asexual can be a catch-all that very broadly means a person who doesn't experience sexual attraction to other people. Although there's a false stereotype to the contrary, asexual people may want friendships, emotional intimacy, and potentially love connections. Note: Asexual is also not the same as celibate, which is the choice not to have sex."

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                34 min

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              Autism is my super blessing! I'm a high-school valedictorian, college graduate, world traveler, disability advocate. I'm a Unitarian Universalist. I'm a Progressive Liberal. I'm about equal rights, human rights, civil & political rights, & economic, social, &cultural rights.