Thursday, August 19, 2010

Hell Hath No Fury when you speak out against Republican bigotry.

What will it take to shut  you up...asks a possible Republican......and my answer to that is: If the crazed Republican bullies put a gun to my head, I will  shut up and surrender.

Saturday, August 14, 2010

The Immortality of the 10 commandments.

By Christopher Hitchens
The row over the boulder-sized version  of the so-called "Ten Commandments," and as to whether they
 should be exhibited in such massive shape on public property, misses the opportunity to consider
 these top-10 divine ordinances and their relationship to original intent. Judge Roy Moore is clearly, as 
well as a fool and a publicity hound, a man who identifies the Mount Sinai orders to Moses with a certain
 interpretation of Protestantism. But we may ask ourselves why any sect, however primitive, would want
 to base itself on such vague pre-Christian desert morality (assuming Moses to be pre-Christian).
The first four of the commandments have little to do with either law or morality, and the first three suggest a terrific insecurity on the part of the person supposedly issuing them. I am the lord thy god and thou shalt have no other ... no graven images ... no taking of my name in vain: surely these could have been compressed into a more general injunction to show respect. The ensuing order to set aside a holy day is scarcely a moral or ethical one, unless you assume that other days are somehow profane. (The Rev. Ian Paisley, I remember, used to refuse interviewers for Sunday newspapers even after it was pointed out to him that it's the Monday edition that is prepared on Sunday.) Whereas a day of rest, as prefigured in the opening passages of Genesis, is no more than organized labor might have demanded, perhaps during the arduous days of unpaid pyramid erection.

So the first four commandments have almost nothing to do with moral conduct and cannot in any case be enforced by law unless the state forbids certain sorts of art all week, including religious and iconographic art—and all activity on the Sabbath (which the words of the fourth commandment do not actually require). The next instruction is to honor one's parents: a harmless enough idea, but again unenforceable in law and inapplicable to the many orphans that nature or god sees fit to create. That there should be no itemized utterance enjoining the protection of children seems odd, given that the commandments are addressed in the first instance to adults. But then, the same god frequently urged his followers to exterminate various forgotten enemy tribes down to the last infant, sparing only the virgins, so this may be a case where hand-tying or absolute prohibitions were best avoided.
There has never yet been any society, Confucian or Buddhist or Islamic, where the legal codes did not frown upon murder and theft. These offenses were certainly crimes in the Pharaonic Egypt from which the children of Israel had, if the story is to be believed, just escaped. So the middle-ranking commandments, of which the chief one has long been confusingly rendered "thou shalt not kill," leave us none the wiser as to whether the almighty considers warfare to be murder, or taxation and confiscation to be theft. Tautology hovers over the whole enterprise.
In much the same way, few if any courts in any recorded society have approved the idea of perjury, so the idea that witnesses should tell the truth can scarcely have required a divine spark in order to take root. To how many of its original audience, I mean to say, can this have come with the force of revelation? Then it's a swift wrap-up with a condemnation of adultery (from which humans actually can refrain) and a prohibition upon covetousness (from which they cannot). To insist that people not annex their neighbor's cattle or wife "or anything that is his" might be reasonable, even if it does place the wife in the same category as the cattle, and presumably to that extent diminishes the offense of adultery. But to demand "don't even think about it" is absurd and totalitarian, and furthermore inhibiting to the Protestant spirit of entrepreneurship and competition.
One is presuming (is one not?) that this is the same god who actually created the audience he was addressing. This leaves us with the insoluble mystery of why he would have molded ("in his own image," yet) a covetous, murderous, disrespectful, lying, and adulterous species. Create them sick, and then command them to be well? What a mad despot this is, and how fortunate we are that he exists only in the minds of his worshippers.
It's obviously too much to expect that a Bronze Age demagogue should have remembered to condemn drug abuse, drunken driving, or offenses against gender equality, or to demand prayer in the schools. Still, to have left rape and child abuse and genocide and slavery out of the account is to have been negligent to some degree, even by the lax standards of the time. I wonder what would happen if secularists were now to insist that the verses of the Bible that actually recommend enslavement, mutilation, stoning, and mass murder of civilians be incised on the walls of, say, public libraries? There are many more than 10 commandments in the Old Testament, and I live for the day when Americans are obliged to observe all of them, including the ox-goring and witch-burning ones. (Who is Judge Moore to pick and choose?) Too many editorialists have described the recent flap as a silly confrontation with exhibitionist fundamentalism, when the true problem is our failure to recognize that religion is not just incongruent with morality but in essential ways incompatible with it.

Tuesday, August 10, 2010

BDSM and Kink Podcasts


All Kink Podcasts

This page lists all the kink podcasts we know about, sorted by title. If you'd like to nominate another kink podcast for inclusion, please email Tanos AT tanos.org.uk
The Dark Side
86 episodes available. Latest on 19 Apr 2012, 8:28am GMT : "DARK SIDE #084 - DA Visits Orangemonkeycast"
The Dark Side is an Adult, alternative lifestyle educational podcast - involving discussion on Relationships, play, sex, and open communication.
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Dart's Domain
67 episodes available. Latest on 1 Mar 2012, 5:20pm GMT : "Lolita Wolf Interview Podcast - Part 2"
Sir Dart's ongoing discussions around leather, kink, and the BDSM lifestyle
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DungeonPlace.com
19 episodes available. Latest on 28 Mar 2012, 5:17am GMT : "DungeonPlace Podcast EP 51 ? Pain"
Consensual Pain In Your Pocket
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Dungeonvoice
9 episodes available. Latest on 10 May 2011, 4:13am GMT : "Perfect Enough . . . Mailler Phong"
Interviews with people about their fetish lifestyle. Guests include professional photographers, sex educators, masters and slaves, leather people, transgender, fetishists, and probably your neighbors.
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DUNGEONVOX
9 episodes available. Latest on 30 Nov 2010, 1:03am GMT : "Lew Rubens - Rope Bondage"
Interviews and Podcasts from members of the BDSM and Fetish lifestyle.
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Erotic Awakening Podcast
186 episodes available. Latest on 26 Apr 2012, 11:09am GMT : "EA184 - Touching Beyond Gender"
Welcome to Erotic Awakening with Dan and dawn, an informative and entertaining exploration of all things erotic. From sacred sexuality to fetishes, BDSM to erotic spirituality, non standard relationships to alternative love styles, as well as simply fun kink. Each week we present an aspect of erotic life - from how to sessions by well known instructors; interviews with highly regarded experts and presenters; event reviews from around the nation; to erotic products and kink media.
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Fetish Flame
47 episodes available. Latest on 17 Apr 2007, 4:59am GMT : "Fetish Flame 35.0 - April 16, 2007 - Hypnosis"
Fetish Flame is about exploring sex. It's about a couple pushing their boundaries together and sharing it with others. We are here to educate, titillate, and maybe have a few laughs. Our shows vary between personal where the two of us cuddle up on the red couch sharing our intimate experiences and thoughts, to guest shows where we host an array of fantastic guest sex educators, dominatrices, and fellow fetishists. Enjoy!
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The Fetish Show
3 episodes available. Latest on 5 Apr 2012, 2:33am GMT : "The Fetish Show 28 ? Burlesque Star Apple Angel & Boot Fetish"
A Fetish News, Kinky Events, Sex, BDSM Lifestyle Talk and Advice Show
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Freedom Of Fetish
34 episodes available. Latest on 9 Jan 2012, 3:22pm GMT : "Freedom of Fetish Episode 36: Mia Martina is back to talk about A Year of Sex & your naughty questions"
A sex, relationship, and fetish advice podcast hosted by Raven Lightholme
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Graydancer's Ropecast
116 episodes available. Latest on 22 Apr 2012, 6:18pm GMT : "Life from GRUEmont!"
The longest-running kinky sex podcast on the web. Rope bondage, BDSM, Adult Toys and more!
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House of Tanos Podcast
6 episodes available. Latest on 23 Dec 2011, 11:05pm GMT : "Tanos 20111223 New events of 2011"
Tanos talks about BDSM in the UK, events, O&P relationships, and more
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I Want Your Sex
44 episodes available. Latest on 27 Apr 2012, 2:35am GMT : "Hiatus"
Tune in and get turned on.
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Kink On Tap
20 episodes available. Latest on 8 Mar 2011, 7:07pm GMT : "Kink On Tap 70: Playing on the Edge"
The smart sexuality netcast for the kinkily inclined.
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Kinky Sex Radio
20 episodes available. Latest on 28 Feb 2007, 3:00pm GMT : "Kinky Sex Radio - 023 - Naughty Books and Naughty Websites"
Let's be clear: our show is NOT porn. It's a frank, honest and sometimes graphic discussion of sex. It's a show about ANY sort of hedonist, alternative and kinky lifestyle. From spanking to role play, beginner to pro - all questions are answered (as best we can). But, it is NOT porn. We can't say that enough.
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Masocast
84 episodes available. Latest on 29 Apr 2012, 11:29pm GMT : "Finding The Lobster"
Sex, BDSM and Kinky Podcast Interviews
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Mistress Matisse's Podcast
49 episodes available. Latest on 11 Aug 2010, 9:02am GMT : "The New Young Dominants"
Mistress Matisse, Seattle sex columnist and professional dominatrix talks about BDSM, polyamory, sex work, and her life as a sexual outlaw. Adults only!More About MeRead My BlogRead My Sex Columns In Seattle Alt-Weekly Paper The StrangerMy Professional Domination WebsiteOther Articles By Me: The Lustlab Archives
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The New Slave
24 episodes available. Latest on 12 Jun 2008, 6:00pm GMT : "SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT"
Trying to figure out if I am alone in these feelings. Trying to work towards making myself a better person through behavior modification. Trying to make my Ma'am happy. This is a Journey into the D/s world for first time submissives/slaves. Fears, joys, negotiations, assignments. This Podcast was created using www.talkshoe.com
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 The Oh Team!
7 episodes available. Latest on 5 Oct 2010, 11:00am GMT : "October 4th, 2010 ? NYC Fetish Tribe, Everything To Do With Sex, and Morpheous? Bondage Extravaganza"
The Best in Adult radio!
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Polyamory Weekly
293 episodes available. Latest on 2 May 2012, 2:43pm GMT : "PW 318: The New Monogamy"
Tales from the front of responsible non-monogamy from a pansexual, kink-friendly point of view. For the full PW blog, visit www.polyweekly.com
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SpankingCast
10 episodes available. Latest on 30 Aug 2011, 8:22pm GMT : "SpankingCast Episode 17: ?Short break fantasies?"
Abel and Haron's Spanking Podcast
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 SubSpace
10 episodes available. Latest on 5 Aug 2010, 4:18am GMT : "Episode 11 - Morning Service"
Covers topics on BDSM and other mundane things from a submissive's perspective.
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Tie Em Up - Leather Bondage Master
5 episodes available. Latest on 18 Mar 2012, 10:06am GMT : "TEU042 - We're Back (again LOL)"
Personal ramblings of a gay leather bondage master in the UK
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Washi Nawashi
41 episodes available. Latest on 20 Mar 2012, 9:09pm GMT : "Dovcast: Mataleo Teaching 3"
The consequences of gravity and other rope nuts
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