A piercing revelation — I harm my body, therefore I harm you Jan 21, 2006
And the old idea that there are some things you can do with your body and some things you can t is increasingly dismissed as a quaint survival of Victorian morals. In the postmodern perception it is not God who owns my body, but I. What I do with it is my business. (TimesOnline)
Kinsey revisited Nov 25, 2004
After all, does it require Victorian morals to recognize how unscientific it is to rely on rapists to determine whether their victims found the assault pleasurable. Is there any connection between ones view of the sexual revolution and the notion that a researcher focusing so heavily on the habits of sex offenders cant in good faith project his findings upon all of America. (Townhall.com)
Madame X leads exhibit of Sargent models Nov 12, 2003
Even for the French, it was too much skin for a society woman during a time when Victorian morals prevailed. A crucial piece of background about the portrait emerged in 2002 when Adelson -- a specialist in Sargent's work -- purchased a collection of the painter's letters at auction in London (Boston.com, MA)
