Lots of Media Dragons in 2006—young and old—are coping with deep problems related directly or indirectly to sex. Many have been burned by current sexual practices—such as hook-ups that create emptiness, or cohabiting relationships that go nowhere—and are looking for new ways to build a loving physical relationship with a member of the opposite sex. Many would welcome, more generally, a fresh way to strengthen their relationships with loved ones A cover story of good sex/bad sex
Art of Living & Literature Across Frontiers: The Importance of Human Touch
Finding true love, good sex, and spousal happiness is not easy in modern world because we are working with a batch of concepts that are actively in our way. Today’s favorite ideals of equality and freedom, however attractive and appropriate in the political or economic realm, are not adequate bases on which to build happy home lives. Love relations and family life are distinct social spheres that need concepts and ideas of their own, not just hand-me-downs from politics and economics.
There are fashions in virtue, as there are in clothes. Frankness and compassion are in this year, discretion and fortitude are out. Indeed, fortitude is now regarded less as a virtue than as a psychological defect.
• Several readers, you old flatterers you, comment that Media Dragon is Mainly Good: Manly Good or Manly Evil [New research claims that boys are more likely to be born to confident women than girls are Is sex a matter of chance? ; Sex Obsessed All roads lead to sex ; Describing someone as "New York," Nora Ephron once observed, is really just a euphemism for Jewish, and since "Sex and the City" epitomized New York Stereotypes and the City ]
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• · · Who holds the power in publishing? Why do some books become bestsellers? A look at the top 50 players in the world of books ; Mark Thwaite www.readysteadybook.com
• · · · When I heard recently that the London Underground had started piping classical music on to some of its platforms, it reminded me of a strange little episode from high school. Tube Tune ; French Tune
• · · · · Are rugged good looks really more attractive? Making looks; And more ladies' laments: Facing the truth: Where have all the Hollywood hunks gone?
• · · · · · A look at the unpredictable business of turning books into movies. I hope that some of the rather horrid figures and sounds that passed before us at the theatre didn't haunt your dreams. There were too many ugly ones. The next time I shall take you to something prettier Making Books; Jozef Imrich tries desperately to communicate the appeal of High Tatra apres-ski to a attention deficit audience Stereotypes and the Cold River