День: 12.11.2015

The Right Stuff

OK. All that sounds great, you’re probably thinking: But what are the odds I’m going to find a company like that? It’s true that most companies don’t have those breathtaking, eye-popping programs and stats to show off, at least not yet. Not every com­pany is ready to, or is even able to, blow open its […]

The Abortion Debate

The abortion debate has been very emotional and sometimes even violent. Many on both sides of the issue have strongly held opinions. Pro-life supporters believe that hu­man life, and therefore personhood, begins at conception, and so an embryo, at any stage of development, is a person. Pro-life supporters believe that aborting a fetus is murder […]

Options for Reducing Exposure to Porn

__ Cancel all subscriptions to porn (Web site, magazine, cable, cell phone, etc.). __ Change to a family-oriented Internet service provider. __ Change your e-mail address. __ Install cyber controls on your computer.* __ Move your computer to a public area in your home. __ Cancel Internet service altogether. __ Buy a new hard drive […]

HOW THE OTHER HALF LOVED

In France in the 13th century young women were kept in gynaecea — or chambres de dames — where they were available 24/7 exclusively for the lord’s pleasure. Count Baudouin, for example, had accessto his servant girls’ quarters along with the bedroom of practically every female in his castle. When he died, 33 of his […]

INTERACTION

Perhaps the biggest change that online matrimonial services have introduced to arranged marriage is opportunity for interaction. In the traditional off-line mode, once a potential match was identi­fied, the next step would be for the prospective groom’s family (with or without the groom) to visit the prospective brides family at home. In more traditional families […]

SEX IN HIGH PLACES

‘You men are unaccountable things: mad till you have yourmistresses, and then stark mad till you are rid of’em again.’Sir John Vanbrugh, Tire Provok’d Wife, 1697 The Dirty Duchess Margaret Whigham (1912-1993) had a taste for millionaires and playboys, but following a near fatal fall down an elevator shaft during her first marriage, the then […]

Explaining the High Divorce Rate

A number of investigators have speculated on the causes of the high divorce rate in the United States. One cause is the comparative ease of obtaining no-fault divorces since the liberalization of divorce laws in the 1970s. Obtaining a divorce has become a sim­pler, less expensive legal process, and as divorces have occurred more often, […]