Relationships
Government Approved Relationships
Michael Hurd | 16 May 2004
Today, however, our society has become so politicized that everybody wants a government stamp of approval.
Today, however, our society has become so politicized that everybody wants a government stamp of approval.
The Rational Basis of Sex: Sacrifice and Selflessness Have No Role in Sex (Part 4 of 4)
Ellen Kenner | 10 November 2002In the healthiest meaning of love and sex, both involve "compromise," but not of the kind inherent in any moral code of sacrifice or selflessness.
The Rational Basis of Sex: Sexual Choices and Preferences (Part 3 of 4)
Ellen Kenner | 3 November 2002Your sexual choice reveals a lot about who you are and what you think of yourself.
The Rational Basis of Sex: Psychological Visibility (Part 2 of 4)
Ellen Kenner | 27 October 2002Every person holds fundamental ideas about himself.
The Rational Basis of Sex: Common Views About Sex (Part 1 of 4)
Ellen Kenner | 20 October 2002We all know what sex is on the general level. It's a capacity and action that is an emotional response to someone we find appealing, physically, and mentally. Sometimes we don't know the person (e.g., a Victoria's Secret model, Pierce Bronson) but we project onto that person our ideal fantasy person and we feel sexually aroused. Even in fantasies, sex is tied to what a person values.
Relationships: It Only Takes One
Michael Hurd | 25 August 2002If you find that all of the women you meet have serious self-esteem problems, then ask yourself...
An "Unselfish Love"
Michael Hurd | 10 August 2002If a man tells a woman that he loves her but then is always concerned about other people's feelings and not about hers, does he really love her?
Can't live without them
Michael Hurd | 1 August 2002Q: What does it mean to love someone so much that you can't live without them?
Celebrate Valentine's Day By Understanding the True Meaning of Love
Gary Hull | 14 February 2002Every Valentine's Day a certain philosophic crime is perpetrated. Actually, it is committed year-round, but its destructiveness is magnified on this holiday.
Friendship is Selfish
Michael Hurd | 3 April 2001You like or love your friends because you get something out of them.
Dollars and Crosses
- Jane Orient on Quitting Medicare
- Ayn Rand’s Essay “To Whom It May Concern” Now Online
- Uses and Sources of Gold
- New Book: How to be Profitable and Moral: A Rational Egoist Approach to Business
- Democracy and Self Determination of Peoples: Euphenisms for Mob Rule in the Middle East
- Private Schools for the Poor
- Holleran on Anti-Hero Worship
- Salsman on the Anti-Capitalist Conservatives
- New Website: Checking Premises
- Job Creators: Who Do those Immigrants Think They Are?
