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Why do men collect porn they only watch once? 20 February 2019 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Pornography , No Comments The porn stash… that ubiquitous—or near-ubiquitous—pile of material where men’s darker desires are catalogued. It used to be magazines and VHS tapes. Later, the bulky, clunky VHS videos went out and slimmer DVDs […]

Why do we always eat too much at Christmas? 21 December 2018 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Mother wound , Patriarchy , No Comments Amid all the jollity of Christmas—much of it genuine, some of it forced—it’s an awkward question to ask. It disturbs the glossy patina of pre-Christmas rituals. Putting up the tree […]

The sexual radicalisation of Lawrence of Arabia 9 March 2018 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: History , Radicalisation , No Comments I recently wrote about the influence of unconscious shame upon the personality of perhaps the single most memorable individual to emerge from World War I, T. E. Lawrence, better known as Lawrence of […]

Pink Floyd’s The Wall – a rock opera on sexual shame 18 March 2012 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Arts , Mother wound , Shame , No Comments During my adolescence, in what I only later realised was a subtly but significantly dysfunctional family, rock music was the main fault line between my father […]