John Sutherland
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/ 13 October 2004

Tales of a sexual adventurer

The publishers of Sexual Behaviour in the Human Male did not expect much when the study was published in 1948. The author, Alfred C Kinsey, was a scientist highly esteemed among entomologists for his work on the gall wasp — an unsexy little bug. The Kinsey Report, as it became known, turned out to be the biggest scientific bestseller since Darwin and, like The Origin of Species, took a wrecking ball to the established moral order.

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/ 16 August 2004

Let the dirty tricks begin …

The Democrats can count on the sell-out movie (Fahrenheit 9/11); the Republicans, a book (Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry) that is already number one on Amazon’s bestseller list a week before publication. You know the United States presidential election is hotting up when the smear campaigns get started.

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/ 20 October 2003

Virtue is its own drawback

It was America’s ”virtuous majority” (as they conceive themselves) who made George Bush president. He keeps these core voters sweet by appointing aggressively virtuous subordinates — men whose sole claim to office, as Bill Maher puts it, is that they ”read the Bible and fuck their wives”.

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/ 1 January 2002

In a pickle

NON omnis moriar, says the Latin poet: not all of me will die. So which body parts do we want to live after us? Thanks to US science you really can cheat death – or bits of you can. At a price, of course.