*****An Invitation from TSS*****
TSS Directory
Introduction/Disclaimer
My intention in this Room is to feature sites
which deal with "non-mainstream-American
Culture," i.e. unrespectable topics,
activities, and sites you might not
ordinarily be interested in or aware of on
your own.
Sociologist Peter L.
Berger called this the Unrespectability Motif
of
sociological consciousness. Go Here for a few statements
about it by Berger. Let me be very clear
about this: this room is about taking
a sociologically
empathetic approach towards even the most
"disgusting" (you define it!) ideas,
practices, and realities in our society.
Some people may simply call them extreme
realities. But, they'll be here in order
to understand them.
Also, by putting these sites in TSS, I am not condoning them...nor, I might add, condemning them. It's all about taking a sociological view of our culture and its practices. The more we know about it the better we can change what needs to be.
So, if you want to take a look at some of these things, Click here for the Topics and Featured Sites.
If not, choose from the TSS
Directory to get out of here,
okay?
Topics
and Links
Alternative Moralities, Behaviors, and Perspectives
Suicide
Alternative
Moralities, Behaviors, and Perspectives
Masters And slaves Together
Pacific Northwest HOME PAGE
Non-racist & Non-political SKINHEADS
Rotten.com
Hated in Florida and lots of other "respectable places"
Fondly and Firmly: The Gentleman Art of Spanking the Woman you Love
The guy is serious about this...and so are some women
Heartless Bitches International
But they say they don't hate men
The Smoking Gun
Quirky and Strange Documents
Death with Dignity National Center
A very serious treatment of a very serious and unrespectable topic
Fun Stuff
NudeCards
Just for fun...
Incest: A Chilling Report
by Heidi Vanderbilt
Incest/Sexual Abuse of Children
SNAP: Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests
Marijuana/Drugs
National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws
The Uses of Marijuana (Help write a book!!)
Historical Research on Drug Policy
Political/Social
Virtual Burning of a Virtual Flag
Pornography
XXX: A Woman's Right to Pornography Humans and their Pornography Should pornography be banned as a threat to women?
Prostitute's Education Network
The World Sex Guide: Research about Prostitution
Joe's Secret Life: Bisexuality
Steps in
overcoming Masturbation (Mormon Advice circa
1970)
Coming Clean about Bisexuality: A Male Perspective
FPC: 20 Links to pro-pedophilia sites IPEC On the Pedophilia Issue: What the APA Should Have Known NOTE: A Google search using "Harris Mirkin" as the keyword will turn up many more "anti" articles and sites about him and the movement to either simply discuss pedophilia...or...to make it acceptable.
Suicidal Idols
In looking at this American development we
can detect another motif of sociology,
closely related to that of debunking but not
identical with---its fascination with the
unrespectable view of society. In at least
every western society it is possible to
distinquish between respectable and
unrespectable sectors. (p. 43) ...we would contend that there has been an
important undercurrent in American sociology,
relating to that "other America" of dirty
language and disenchanted attitudes, that
state of mind that refuses to be impressed,
moved or befuddled by the official
ideologies. (p. 44) But where there is intelligence and where
it manages to free itself from the goggles of
respectability, we can expect a clearer view
of society than in those cases where the
oratorical imagery is taken for real life.
(p. 45) ...we would maintain that sociological
consciousness predisposes one towards an
awareness of worlds other than that of
middle-class respectability, an awareness
which already carries within itself the seeds
of intellectual unrespectability. (p.46) But whether he can bring himself to human
sympathy with the phenomena he is studying or
not, the sociologist will in some measure be
detached from the taken-for-granted postures
of his society. Unrespectability, whatever
its ramifications in the emotions and the
will, must remain a constant possibility in
the sociologist's mind. It may be segregated
from the rest of his life, overlaid by the
routine mental states of everyday existence,
even denied ideologically. Total
respectability of thought, however, will
invariably mean the death of sociology. This
is one of the reasons why genuine sociology
disappears promptly from the scene in
totalitarian countries, as is well
illustrated in the instance of Nazi Germany.
By implication, sociological understanding is
always potentially dangerous to the minds of
policemen and other guardians of public
order, since it will always tend to
relativize the claim to absolute rightness
upon which such minds like to rest. (pp47-48)
by Wendy McElroy...including links to the "Preface" of her book and to her Homepage
from The Ethical Spectacle...Vol. I, No. 11 November 1995, Series of essays on the issue of Pornography
Resources used to support "yes"
Prostitution
Sexuality
Some in non-english...some may have disturbing pictures, so beware
Ipce is a forum for people who are engaged in scholarly discussion about the understanding and emancipation of mutual relationships between children or adolescents and adults.
One of many critiques of Pedophilia in general and Dr. Harris Mirkins, in particular (re: "The Pattern of Sexual Politics: Feminism, Homosexuality and Pedophilia" by Dr. Harris Mirkin in Journal of
Homosexuality Vol 37, Number 2 (1999) pp.1-24)
Suicide
From "Invitation to Sociology"
by Peter L. Berger
