{"id":284,"date":"2010-07-02T13:25:25","date_gmt":"2010-07-02T13:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/thinplaces\/2010\/07\/what-im-reading-articles-on-a-year-without-sex-and-psychopaths-and-childhood.html"},"modified":"2010-07-02T13:25:25","modified_gmt":"2010-07-02T13:25:25","slug":"what-im-reading-articles-on-a-year-without-sex-and-psychopaths-and-childhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/thinplaces\/2010\/07\/what-im-reading-articles-on-a-year-without-sex-and-psychopaths-and-childhood.html","title":{"rendered":"What I&#8217;m Reading: Articles on a year without sex and nature vs. nurture, and playgrounds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two unexpected sources offer fodder for discussion about the merits of approaching sex differently. First, journalist Hephzibah Anderson writes in the Atlantic about her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/culture\/archive\/2010\/06\/my-year-without-sex\/58592\/\" target=\"_blank\">Year Without Sex<\/a>. Then, Camille Paglia writes for the New York Times, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/06\/27\/opinion\/27Paglia.html?src=me&amp;ref=homepage\" target=\"_blank\">No Sex Please, We&#8217;re Middle Class<\/a>,&#8221; in which she argues that a return to differentiation between the sexes and even a degree of modesty will increase pleasure. Neither of these writers supports a return to conservative sexual norms, but both of them demonstrate ways our culture&#8217;s sexual freedom has harmed us. For more of my thoughts on this, see my post for her.meneutics: <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.christianitytoday.com\/women\/2010\/06\/getting_our_story_about_sex_ri.html\" target=\"_blank\">Sexy Evangelism<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I also heard an interesting story on NPR about the relationship between genetics, neuro-psychology and childhood experience: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=127888976\" target=\"_blank\">A Neuroscientist Uncovers a Dark Secret<\/a>.&#8221; As neuroscientist Jim Fallon discovers that he has both the brain of a psychopath and the genes of one, he rethinks the relationship between nature and nurture: &#8220;<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif;font-size: 14px;line-height: 19px\">He once believed that genes and brain function could determine everything about us. But now he thinks his childhood may have made all the difference.&#8221;<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two unexpected sources offer fodder for discussion about the merits of approaching sex differently. First, journalist Hephzibah Anderson writes in the Atlantic about her Year Without Sex. 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