For people not on its peculiar wavelength (by which I mean, my wife), the curious, amorphous entity known as anti-comedy could easily pass for non-comedy, or terrible comedy. That’s partially by ...

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I am grateful for Stephen J. Pope’s careful reading of my essay and glad to have the opportunity to reply. His basic claim, it seems to me, is that a specifically sexual kind of friendship, not ...

Some things are so obvious that we take them for granted. We don't feel that we need to “argue” them because we casually assume that everyone “knows they are true.” The old Frank Sinatra song comes to ...

Various purposes of sex, people go for, include: affection, attachment, bonding, boredom, closeness, comfort, commitment, communication, connection, continuity ...