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The Winter Solstice
There is a strange and melancholy beauty to the winter solstice, the shortest day of the year. On the one hand we experience the day with the least amount of…
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The Art of Beautiful Women
I enjoy very much posting photos of beautiful women. As I have often mentioned here, I find the visions of beauty to be uplifting. There is something spiritual about beauty.…
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Ancient Things
The Via Appia, or Appian Way. This is a nice photo of the Via Appia in Rome, (also known as the Appian Way) one of the worlds oldest roads. First…
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Classic Beauty
Classic Beauty Although a contemporary photo, this has a classic look. There is something about black and white photography which captures well a certain kind of restrained, yet still alluring…
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Porn and Erotica: A Society of Deeply Sexual Souls
This is an interesting site: http://www.ishootporn.com/ It seems like an honest approach to porn, a behind the scenes look at the reality of the adult entertainment industry, as experienced by the…
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Ancient Egyptian Erotica
The Egyptians enjoyed some of the finer pleasures in life... Here is a piece of interesting art from ancient Egypt. I really do not know the exact date of this…
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Kama Sutra: Ancient Manual of Erotic Love
The Kama Sutra delves into the timeless delights of sexual pleasures… I confess great ignorance on this matter, but recently I have been doing some reading on Hinduism, and of…
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St. Augustine And Sex
St. Augustine, 17th century portrait by Phillipe de Champaigne. I am currently reading a book on the history of sexuality within the Christian tradition, Eunuchs For Heaven, by Uta Ranke-Heinemann.…
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Post Orgasmic Depression: The Origin of Much Religious Negativity Towards Sexual Pleasure
After studying more and more the history of sexuality within the Catholic Church, and after having tried to live these things myself throughout my life, I have come to a…
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Classic Beauties: Rita Hayworth, the “Goddess of Love”.
The exquisite Rita Hayworth he other night I saw Rita Hayworth (1918-1987) for the first time in a movie, the film noir classic, Gilda, where she starred opposite Glen Ford.…