Bad Will Hunting – your shame is not your fault 13 December 2018 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Arts , Shame , No Comments “It’s not your fault.” In the Oscar-winning film Good Will Hunting, much-loved actor Robin Williams plays a psychologist who treats an angry, uncommunicative South Boston janitor (played by Matt Damon) […]
Life drawing – the light and shade of shame 3 December 2018 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Arts , Shame , No Comments I recently started life modelling—posing naked for artists to draw the human body. Even in life drawing, as in everywhere in our patriarchy-based society, there is shame. As a keen observer […]
Does sexual shame affect penis size? 19 November 2018 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Shame , No Comments I’ve written extensively on this site how sexual shame unconsciously affects the entire spectrum of human sexual behaviour, both psychologically and in the bedroom arts. But let’s go one step further. Could it even affect that […]
Unporn – a new take on sexual shame 21 September 2018 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Shame , No Comments “Our world is becoming increasingly visual. Yet, when it comes to the visual expression around sexual subjects, we’re limited to medical diagrams and porn.” So writes Mikael Cho, Founder/CEO of the excellent free stock photo […]
Is sexual shame keeping you single? 24 May 2018 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Sexuality , Shame , No Comments When I was young, for a few years we used to holiday at a hotel on Lake Lugano in northern Italy. And, every year, two English gentlemen—brothers—were there at the same time. One of […]
Unconscious shame and the ‘full body massage’ 10 May 2018 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Shame , No Comments I have blogged repeatedly about society’s unconscious shame about emotions and sexuality, a shame that—as well as erupting in violently destructive ways—largely hides in plain sight. Our unconscious sense of ‘sex is dirty’ and ‘I’m […]
Study links sexual shame to suicide risk 25 March 2018 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: News , Shame , No Comments In an article titled ‘Teens who hide sexuality at higher risk of suicide’ (1), SOS Safety Magazine reports on a recent study by the American Journal of Preventative Medicine. The study is titled […]
Lawrence of Arabia – a shame-driven hero? 18 February 2018 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: History , Shame , No Comments Shifting Sands, an exhibition at the British Civil War Centre in Newark, examines the perennially fascinating story of T. E. Lawrence—a.k.a. Lawrence of Arabia—from multiple perspectives: historical, archaeological and personal. Pursuing clues in […]
This toxic society – U.S. self-injury rate triples 28 November 2017 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: News , Shame , No Comments A new report by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reveals that between 2009 and 2015, rates of self-injury among girls aged 10-14 years skyrocketed from 110 per 100,000 Emergency […]
American Ugliness – the fall of Kevin Spacey 9 November 2017 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Arts , News , Shame , No Comments I don’t have a single favourite film. But there is a bunch of films, indeterminate in number, that rise above the rest. Wonder Boys, Shakespeare in Love, Apocalypse Now, Chinatown, […]