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Fear of Child Sexuality Young People Sex & Agency
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Steven Angelides
Eric Hamell
, August 09, 2023
I'm about a quarter of the way through and finding it very engaging. If you relied on popular culture and the pronouncements of politicians, you'd never know how very recent is the assumption that children are asexual. An eye opener.
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Women Sex & Pornography
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Beatrice Faust
Eric Hamell
, February 19, 2022
I read this book in the mid-1980s and found it refreshingly different from the erotophobia and misandry of much other writing on the subject by feminists. I've learned recently that one reason for this may be a positive relationship she enjoyed with an older man during her adolescence, as also reflected in the chapter she contributed to "The Betrayal of Youth: Radical Perspectives on Childhood Sexuality, Intergenerational Sex, and the Social Oppression of Children and Young People," edited by Warren Middleton.
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Interrupted Journey Two Lost Hours Aboard a Flying Saucer
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John G Fuller
Eric Hamell
, October 26, 2020
I read this book about forty-five years ago, when I hadn't yet had much training in critical thinking and believed in UFOs, ESP, and the like. An account of the experience of alleged abductees Barney and Betty Hill, it devotes considerable space to their psychiatrist's perspective, and gave me a sense for the first time of how complex and interesting non-paranormal/non-extraterrestrial interpretations of anomalous experience could be.
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On Liberty
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John Stuart Mill
Eric Hamell
, June 23, 2020
This is a very important work which I have frequently had occasion to cite. One of the most notable points Mill makes it that intellectual liberalism doesn't stop at opposing censorship by government. It insists that any effort at suppressing the free expression of opinion, no matter how unpopular, is ultimately harmful to society.
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Harmful to Minors The Perils of Protecting Children from Sex
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Judith Levine
Eric Hamell
, December 01, 2019
Sorely needed. More people need to read this book in view of the persistent cultural myth that children need "protecting" from sexual subject matter. Levine fearlessly points out -- in the face, inevitably, of much flack -- that there's no scientific basis for this notion. Indeed, trying to enforce sexual ignorance in children only sets the stage for psychosexual difficulties later, and in the meantime actually makes them more vulnerable to predators who will exploit their natural curiosity about what other adults aren't telling them.
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Humanism and Socialism
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George Novack
Eric Hamell
, November 02, 2019
I found this book to offer a very coherent perspective on the meaning of life from within an evolutionary, materialist framework.
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A Wrinkle in Time (Time Quintet #1)
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Madeleine LEngle
Eric Hamell
, August 17, 2019
It's generally a delightful book, except for the annoying fact that it promotes an incorrect usage. A tesseract is *not* a wrinkle in time; it's the four-dimensional analog of a cube.
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Myth of Repressed Memory False Memories & Allegations of Sexual Abuse
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Elizabeth Loftus
Eric Hamell
, June 18, 2018
I'm literally commenting on the title here, as I haven't read the book yet (although I have read interviews with the author). I think the title's lack of nuance can be counterproductive for conveying an evidence-based perspective to the general public, as I was just explaining in an email to some friends: "I think the debate often gets muddied by the fact that skeptics often oversimplify by simply calling repressed memories a 'myth.' They are probably right that extended, multiple episodes of horrific abuse are unlikely to be forgotten -- more typically, they're remembered obsessively as in PTSD -- but such a sweeping rejection sounds to the average person like a claim that nothing is ever forgotten because it's disturbing (as opposed to being forgotten because it's uninteresting), which contradicts the experience of large numbers of people. "For instance, for several years I remembered an occasion when I was twelve, when I became curious about the family history and my mother directed me to some boxes of papers in the master bedroom. After looking at them for a little while, I quite suddenly said aloud to myself, 'Why are you wasting your time looking at these stupid old papers? You have more important things to do!' and started hurriedly putting them away. Even as I left the room, I recognized that my behavior was very peculiar, but had no will to reflect on my motives for it. "A few years later, on Christmas when I was seventeen, my mother got me and my brother together and informed me that each of us had a secret to share with the others. Mine was merely that I was in love for the first time. My brother's was that he was gay. But my mother's was that she'd had another husband prior to my father, named Harold Diamond. "Almost as soon as I heard that name, I thought it had a familiar ring for some reason, but couldn't place it. At a number of points over the following years, I would briefly reflect on it again. I noted the name 'Alma Diamond' in particular had a resonance, but still couldn't remember from where. Finally, while thinking about it again -- perhaps specifically by imagining the name in print -- I suddenly saw it in the context of a sentence (fragment): 'Married Alma Diamond in 1951.' And it all came back: that I saw this sentence in my father's curriculum vitae, quickly averted my eyes, and said out loud to myself, 'Why are you wasting your time looking at these stupid old papers? You have more important things to do!' "It wasn't till several years later that I got around to confirming my hunch by asking my mother to show me my father's c.v. again. She expressed skepticism that personal information like that would be in a c.v., but dug it out for me, and I looked and saw that sentence fragment just as I had remembered it. Of course, since I'd known since before I was twelve that neither my father's and my surname nor my mother's maiden name was Diamond, seeing this the first time had thrown me for a loop and I simply hadn't been prepared for it; since I was alone it was feasible to actively suppress what I'd seen from consciousness, and that's obviously what I did. My brother has reported at least one similar experience, although he eventually remembered that in his case the forgetting wasn't spontaneous but the result of a post-hypnotic suggestion by our father, who he'd come to realize had been an amateur hypnotist. I subsequently confirmed that by asking our surviving uncle when he visited Philadelphia for a class reunion. "I understand the conceptual distinction between this kind of incident, where it's possible to suppress something precisely because it's very brief (especially in my case), and the claim that large swaths of experience can likewise be buried, for which there seems to be no good evidence. But the way many skeptics talk about repressed memory isn't so nuanced. For instance, one book by a major researcher in the field is titled The Myth of Repressed Memory. When there are probably millions of people in the US alone who've had experiences like mine, I'm concerned that careless, sweeping language like that serves to discredit the skeptics more than it does the peddlers of false memories."
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A Freedom Budget for All Americans: Recapturing the Promise of the Civil Rights Movement in the Struggle for Economic Justice Today
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Paul Le Blanc and Michael D. Yates
Eric Hamell
, May 01, 2018
This is a very engaging work that provided me with a much deeper understanding of the political forces that shaped the Civil Rights Movement, as well as suggesting how we can pick up from where it left off.
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