A difficult and explicit look at abhorrent behavior, especially depicted in various films.
- Why _Irreversible_ is the most traumatic film I’ve ever seen
- It’s important that we calibrate our moral intuitions
- Victims and villains: what are the rules?
- #metoo, Harvey Weinstein, _The Morning Show _and power dynamics
- Understanding maturity and agency
- The burden of male sexuality vs our higher ideals
- Michael Jackson (_Leaving Neverland_), paedophile who courted boyfriends
- R. Kelly (_Surviving R. Kelly_), Aaliya was 13-14, hebephile who imprisoned adolescents
- Jeffrey Epstein (_Filthy Rich_), ephebophile who corrupted teens and the legal system
- Chronophilia and age of consent, ppreciating differnces in physical maturity
- What counts as mental illness?
- What is trauma?
- Codes of conduct
- Systemic conspiracies might be worse than specific sex crimes
- _Spotlight_ and the Catholic Church
- Male sexuality is messy at best, and too often vile
- Victimhood culture must parse out differences in agency and responsibility
- Sex acts themselves are fascinating. How do we separate kink shaming from policing actual abuse?
- CONTEXT MATTERS.