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thretonApr 29, 2014

For a different perspective of sexuality in a male only environment, I recommend Surprised By Joy, by C. S. Lewis. It begins with his life in boarding school.

Lewis could quite easily have been describing life in prison. I found it astonishing.

aaronaxonAug 2, 2021

Wow I love this guy's content (immediately got sidetracked away from the linked page and started reading at a frenetic pace). It is the sort of treasure trove that I am lucky to stumble upon once a year at most.

In fact, reading this stuff really stirred me up. It makes me think of the C.S. Lewis book "Surprised by Joy" which I think described this sort of feeling, but with the feelings in the book sourced from fiction/fantasy works. At least that is what I remember from reading it 7 years ago.

Edit: Trying to think of other websites that I loved like this:

AfroTechMods.com like 20 years ago

Ludens.cl about 10 years ago

...these are hard to think of, but I'm sure it is not a once-a-decade event.

nbanksonDec 8, 2017

True enough. All generations need this type of speech. For example, I first came across the term chronological snobbery reading C.S. Lewis, according to Wikipedia he used it in "Surprised by Joy" which was written 50 years ago. Since he coined the term to describe the thought patterns in his day, we can easily tell that generations before Millennials have also believed things because they were modern rather than because they were true. Different generations may sometimes have different weeds to pull, and I wish he describe his own biases which he overcame.
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