ISSUE 1 | FEB 2011

VALENTINE’S DAY

Love in the Time of Communism: A Case Study in Revolutionary Overreach

the limits of the palace - the calendrier républicain - « will the family continue to exist under communism? » - natalism - solemn ceremonies - how she could have expected

A Peculiar Institution: The Afterlife of Marriage

The last first kiss - it has become possible to live alone - « sex and utilities included in the rent » - guaranteeing adulthood at the cost of childhood - folie à deux - a solid decade of serial monogamy - the opportunity to do better

Cat Pierro

eat the person

a lover’s lie - what we really want is - our enormous, vague sentiment - a comfortable distance - your friends would freak out - desperate, impossible experiments

Dora Nesakani

...or be eaten

I mean his emotion - another person - Megan Boyle - the bearer of truth - that he might do it brutally

Casey Lange

Is Pornography as Dangerous as Cartoons?

the moral effects of art - « there is no such thing as... an immoral book » - ways of influencing - Snakes on a Plane - pornography - moral self-defense - the moralism of « South Park » - the faculty of humor

Brandon Hopkins

Metaphysical Marriage and the Elasticity of Tradition

the juncture of human spirituality and terrestrial desire - « a way out » - the mystical marriage of St. Catherine - bride-initiated spirit marriage - flirty fishers - temple prostitutes of Ishtar-Astarte - impromptu enclaves

Austin Gross

Glossary of Sexual Doubt / HOCD and the Everyday Lives of Psychopathology

spike warning - tactics of catastrophization - out of order - the repressive hypothesis - homosexual panic - the right to denial - checking, spiking, reassurance - « groinal » responses