Category Archives: Sexuality

In (binary) days of old

Posted on February 14, 2018 by Frank

In days of old, you either had a penis or you didn’t. If you did, you were considered a man. If not, then a women. Anyone who didn’t conform was killed, locked in the attic/madhouse, or simply ignored. The binary … Continue reading →

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The Trans Debate

Posted on February 8, 2018 by Frank

“Gender identity isn’t a real thing. It’s completely unscientific. Male and female are biological facts, like having breasts or having a penis. This is your sex, and the evidence is plain to see. You’re one or the other, and you … Continue reading →

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Love of Machinery

Posted on July 1, 2017 by Frank

I’m currently reading David Levy’s Love and Sex with Robots, a book that gets mentioned frequently in recent discussions about sexbots. The book spends a lot of time examining how and why we fall in love, and though I don’t … Continue reading →

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Machinery of Love

Posted on June 30, 2017 by Frank

Is it possible to love a machine? I don’t mean sexually or romantically – we’ll come back to that later. I have for many years (over sixteen) had a love affair of sorts with Apple computers. My first was a … Continue reading →

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Romantic Love

Posted on June 20, 2017 by Frank

“Why do people prioritise romantic love,” I often see aromantic people ask, “as if all other forms of love are inferior?” As if romantic love were ever a plain choice and not a sledgehammer of narcotics and stimulants triggered by … Continue reading →

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Sexbots Are Coming

Posted on April 6, 2017 by Frank

Poetry? About sexbots? How absurd! You might as well write poetry about dildos! mighty redwood – how we would mourn thy glorious fall What sort of a man are you to sully this highest art with such perversion? I have … Continue reading →

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Aphrodite’s Loves

Posted on February 14, 2017 by Frank

How could I not love Hephaestus? The singular passion of his love for me is a light that can never be extinguished. Even the goddess of love has need to be loved, and my husband’s divine heart is a wellspring … Continue reading →

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Again

Posted on November 22, 2016 by Frank

a woman I wished to be a man that I might wish not to be a man and with my third a woman I wished to be again

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As if to be a unicorn

Posted on February 17, 2016 by Frank

‘I love you’ is reserved for friends No lover’s heard it yet I’ve never sought my ‘one true love’ (Not something I regret) All valentines, anonymous ‘Return to sender’ go All wild proposals – so absurd! – Receive the answer, … Continue reading →

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Disconnected

Posted on February 7, 2016 by Frank

The world is full of boys and girls I guess I’m one or other But really I am happiest When thinking I’m another The boys are chasing girls and boys The fewer clothes the better Attracted to the triple-X – … Continue reading →

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