(This post is part of my Patreon-supported New Worlds series.) (Caveat lector: This essay will talk quite frankly about what kinds of sex people have.) What is appropriate for people to do with their naked bodies and each other’s? What’s … Continue reading
(This post is part of my Patreon-supported New Worlds series.) Because homosexual behavior has attracted so much attention from society over the millennia, I want to take a moment to focus on it specifically. As previous essays have probably made … Continue reading
(This post is part of my Patreon-supported New Worlds series.) Any discussion of sex and gender flows fairly naturally onward to the question of sexual orientation, because those aspects of identity are a major part of how we formulate the … Continue reading
(This post is part of my Patreon-supported New Worlds series.) Contrary to what some people believe, non-binary gender isn’t a new idea. It’s just relatively new in the West: in other parts of the world, it’s been around for a … Continue reading
Next week we’ll talk about traditional third genders and the modern array of alternative genders, but first we should look at the most common components of a gender system: the ideas of male and female. Because they’re cultural construct, these … Continue reading
(This post is part of my Patreon-supported New Worlds series.) Last week we looked at the sex half of the cultural can of worms that is sex and gender. This week we turn to gender — and, to repeat my … Continue reading
Important disclaimer first: all of these Patreon essays are, necessarily, a relatively brief and therefore shallow look at the topic at hand. They’re each a little over a thousand words long; there’s only so much detail you can get into … Continue reading
(This post is part of my Patreon-supported New Worlds series.) I couldn’t fit everything I wanted to say about language in the July theory essay, so for this fifth Friday, we’re going to backtrack to that topic! Last time we … Continue reading
(This post is part of my Patreon-supported New Worlds series.) When talking about democratic societies, sooner or later the phrase “political parties” will come up. But these are a specific manifestation of something found in many forms of government, which … Continue reading
(This post is part of my Patreon-supported New Worlds series.) (The title I chose for this essay sounds like a high school teacher trying to interest their students in civics with a really strange hack of Dungeons & Dragons. 🙂 … Continue reading
