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Parents with Learning Disabilities

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 su…

Real Freedom

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 h…

Mondello, Italy

Sex, Love, and Hysteria

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 as…

Segesta, Sicily

Propaganda and Education

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 ques…

Polyamory: the Virtue of Multiple Parents

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 Rind Study: censored

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…

Emotional Incest

“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…

Nudity and the Halo Effect

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 n…