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Does porn addiction even exist? 14 April 2014 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Pornography , No Comments Our society regards porn users as vile, weak-willed, despicable beings that choose to gorge themselves on sexualised images of women. The key word here is ‘choose’. There is still widespread disbelief in medical circles that sex and […]

Grimm reality behind Swedish prostitution laws? 12 December 2013 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: News , Sexuality , No Comments Once upon a time there was a far-away land called Sweden, where circa 1998 there were 2,500 prostitutes gainfully employed keeping the Big Bad Wolf in a post-coital stupor. To reduce sex trafficking, a […]

Veils and vaginas – why do patriarchies control sex? 25 June 2012 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: History , News , Patriarchy , 2 Comments In an incendiary article in Foreign Policy magazine titled Why Do They Hate Us? [link no longer works] Mona Eltahawy lays bare the “pulsating heart of misogyny in the Middle East” with a […]

The elephant in the room of porn 9 April 2012 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Pornography , No Comments It’s a common situation, common enough that it no longer shocks or surprises. A woman discovers that her partner is using pornography. There is no way of knowing how many couples this situation affects, for […]

Pink Floyd’s The Wall – a rock opera on sexual shame 18 March 2012 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Arts , Shame , 3 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 and I. I […]