Courtney Bender discusses the controversial ballot measure to prohibit circumcision of males under eighteen years of age, which will be…
sexuality
The “great sinner” myth
Confessions re-emerged into floodlit attention in the Romantic era of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, when it was…
Rubber soul
To much fanfare, the Vatican recently decreed that under certain conditions the trapping of male semen by a thin balloon of…
An alternate reading of David Wojnarowicz’s ant-covered Christ
David Wojnarowicz's "Fire in My Belly" is an expression not of hostility to the Christian faith but of a deep,…
Video removed from the National Portrait Gallery
Yesterday morning saw the removal of David Wojnarowicz's 1987 video A Fire in My Belly from the National Portrait Gallery's…
Parodic politics
Perhaps the upswing in religious individualism in this postmodern, postsecular period doesn’t herald the breakdown of community after all—nor does…
Religion, spirituality, and the sexual scandal
Religion and the sex scandal are still closely linked, though the targets of public outrage have morphed: it is often…
Teaching Catholicism and sexual morality
The dismissal of Kenneth Howell, a University of Illinois adjunct professor of Catholic history and thought, has generated much discussion…
“The Lady Twilight”
Over at Killing the Buddha, William Dalrymple is excerpting his new book, Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in…
Recent Bloggingheads.tv episodes on religion and sexuality
Bloggingheads.tv has recently put up two "diavlogs" on issues related to religion and sexuality.