Comments on: Everybody loves sex

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Sat, 23 May 2015 15:20:42 +0000

Pathetic, when an entire civilization thinks their propaganda used to control them is entertainment. They get what they deserve and they will never aspire to anything better when they are satisfied with what they got now.

By: tim johnson

tim johnson — Sat, 23 May 2015 06:05:51 +0000

Sooo….come here often??

By: Walter Sobchak

Walter Sobchak — Sat, 23 May 2015 04:27:00 +0000

This is why we are reading Trollope now.

By: Charlie Martin

Charlie Martin — Sat, 23 May 2015 01:02:27 +0000

You know, given the success of Fifty Shades of Gray — the book, at least — and the wild success of “mommy porn” now that it can be obtained on a Kindle without the cover showing, I’m not sure I buy the notion that women don’t want explicit sex.

I also remember seeing an art film in Germany long ago — 30 years, I guess — that was pretty explicit and replaced actual human sex with definitely unsimulated horse sex.

I’m suspicious the European audience may not quite be as you think them to be.

By: Harry

Harry — Fri, 22 May 2015 23:30:38 +0000

Like music, the performance can be highly repetitive and this is far more stimulating for the performers than for the audience.

By: Dave M

Dave M — Fri, 22 May 2015 23:14:55 +0000

In Europe it’s always about 1975.

By: sdferr

sdferr — Fri, 22 May 2015 22:30:57 +0000

For the sake of completeness of a sort, and the doubling back, Prof. Bloom's teacher Leo Strauss' course on the Republic (1957) is recently available at U. Chicago Leo Strauss Center for free download. Bloom's own translation of the Republic is very good too. It's funny about Strauss' course that he begins with the relation of Aristophanes' Ecclesiazusae to the Republic, where, if we look, we'll see the protagonist Praxagora looking quite a bit like little miss Lena Dunham of Girls fame. But see for yourselves. Further along our doubling back to eros, Strauss' course on Plato's Symposium is also available to us, thanks to the efforts of another of Strauss' students, Seth Bernardete.

By: gemma

gemma — Fri, 22 May 2015 22:30:21 +0000

Wow! A number of years ago my niece was looking through a box of stuff I had held onto and she came upon a colleged handbook we were given in our freshman year which was 1961-1962. She was astonished at all of the rules and regs and couldn’t believe that life was so restrictive. I said to her that back then, in order to be rebellious, all we had to do was smoke in our room or wear bermudas on campus on a week day. Her generation had to rob a bank. I think that this generation has no options that do not include porn or suicide bombing. God help us.

By: neo-neocon

neo-neocon — Fri, 22 May 2015 17:18:48 +0000

Capn Rusty: For further reading, this.

By: CapnRusty

CapnRusty — Fri, 22 May 2015 14:03:03 +0000

For further reading: “The Closing of the American Mind” by Alan Bloom.