Show of hands, ladies.

You don't sound crazy. You sound like someone gave you powerful, mind-altering drugs, which is pretty much what happened.

There are other superb novels from the 1960s. But I wouldn't get rid of a single one of these. The only change I'd make would be to add Zelazny's Lord of Light

Dr. Helen Fisher has some excellent books on the subject. The Anatomy of Love and Why We Love are well worth reading. Even better is Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jetha's Sex at Dawn: How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What It Means for Modern Relationships

That's...extreme. I've never heard of anyone who had it quite that bad. Have you had this experience with anyone else?

It's not precisely true. And by "not precisely true" I mean "bald-faced goddam lie"

Remember that musty old term "Notorious and Abominable Crime Against Nature"?

It's obviously the Mother Plane come to destroy the Whites and save the Brown, Black and Yellow Races just like Elijah Muhammed said.

It's absolutely a pheromone thing. That's what the vomeronasal organ is for.

I wouldn't identify her as a feminist, but she did during the 2008 campaign. I was speechless, and believe me it takes a lot to render me speechless.

I know exactly what my wife would do at the gun test. She'd take the gun offline, disarm it and break the shooter's neck. This could invalidate the results of the experiment.

What it means is a more robust immune system and resistance to infection. I don't know about "biologically advanced" since that is not a meaningful scientific term. It does mean kids who won't get sick or die from illness as easily. Complementary MHCs are also a stand-in for heterozygosity in your children which has…

The body odor test actually has a real, demonstrable basis. There's significant evidence (cf. Helen Fisher et al) that MHC plays an important role in choosing mates. The mechanism by which we recognize and assess it is smell. Gernsback may have been a bit of a crank, but he happened to be correct.

Oh, that parade of horrors I was reciting was in Europe and the United States. Every one of those things was common in the West well into the twentieth century. Burning off little girls' clits with carbolic acid to prevent masturbation was a specialty of doctors like Kellogg. Enforced sensory deprivation and complete…

Let's just say that religion can ruin anything but has the potential to do better.

Not precisely true about the "no female Imams". Women lead prayers and teach Quran all the time in gender-separated mosques.

Sure, as of a few decades ago. But compare modern Turkey or Indonesia to the days of forced clitoridectomies, the Rest Cure, women arrested for wearing pants, women not being able to own property in their own names, enter into contracts or testify on their own behalf. All of those were absolutely standard in the US…

And Paul taught that women were somewhat lower than whale dung, as did the Shakyamuni Buddha. And good luck finding a traditional Hindu Priestess.

I'm guessing it's a combination of extremely rigid gender roles, sex-segregation and machismo. You find the same sort of thing in non-Muslim countries with the same combination of social factors.

I am officially in love with you. "We can have a teachable moment, or I can have your balls for sushi. Your choice."