Blame The Jews
Many of you know that I’m writing during an extreme health crisis. You can support the work at the links below. Now, on with the gods of war. by Liam Whenever a world crisis emerges, one group is always to… Continue Reading
Sex
Monogamy, marriage, coupling, partnering, sex, romance, fidelity, children; tribalism, agriculture and society; what do these have in common? They are intrinsic to our human nature, they bond and bind and create us, and we create them. After the cultural earthquake of 10,000 years ago, the dawn of agriculture – of staying in one place and accruing land, stored food, objects, animals and people – our relationship structures were radically altered.
After 240,000 years of being tribal nomads, moving with the seasons, we plunked down in one place, bound the woman to the house, the house the to King, and we began to inhabit a new and rather uncomfortable dynamic.
Read on…
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Lose Your Illusion
Or, What To Do With The Rest Of Your Life, When Valentine’s Day Is Over By Liam Scheff A song for the proceedings… A friend wrote me asking what she should do about her current sort-of relationship. She likes him…no,… Continue Reading
Shame, Sex and Mind Control
From the Straights to the Gays, Shame Binds Us All (And That’s The Way The Owners Like It) by Liam Scheff The first thing you should know is this: your thoughts, your morals, your sense of ethics, boundaries, values –… Continue Reading
That First Kiss
Is it possible to keep a relationship exciting and romantic for decades? The answer, according to the self-help shelf, is probably not (but they’ll tell you to buy their books anyway). Or, perhaps yes – if you’re willing to take… Continue Reading
The Other Gay Massacre
My deepest sorrow for what happened in Orlando. But there’s much more to the story. Stockholm Syndrome, meet Gay Community. terrymichael.net/hiv-aids/prep ___________ Please support actual independent science journalism by buying a book. Or donate $5 to $20 on Paypal. #gayrights… Continue Reading
The Monkey and the Alien (Or, How To Enslave A Planet)
by Liam Scheff You are an Alien Overlord. You sit in meetings with your fellow Alien Overlords and you manage all the inhabited production planets in the galaxy. You need to produce, to mine for minerals and metals, and to… Continue Reading
Love – What’s Church and State Got To Do With It?
Our system of modern marriage is a land-holding and child-rearing agreement that favors the state at every turn. It is a kind of slavery to an idealization of feelings – a snapshot of a moment – a lovely, passionate moment,… Continue Reading
Sensual Lessons – A Review Of “The Truth About Love” by Joan Shenton
The “Truth About Love” by Liam Scheff Review by Joan Shenton You’ll enjoy this book if you read it slowly because the best sex is taken slowly and this is a minutely detailed romp, which occasionally breaks into a sweaty… Continue Reading
Love – Not By The Book – A Review of The Truth About Love – by Faith Dyson
by Faith Dyson I’m not sure if ‘The Truth About Love’, Liam Scheff’s new semi-autobiograhical novel, is all true, or not, but it’s the kind of story that makes me wish it is. It’s a modern-day Romance, not so much… Continue Reading
Monogamy Vs Reality
The Truth about LOVE… The new novel by Liam Scheff. Available today. Here! “Is anybody really monogamous?” That’s the question on the mind of Will, a 32-year-old graphic artist working at the bottom rung of a Boston ad agency, using… Continue Reading
A Welcome Voyeur – A Review of “The Truth About Love”
by April Boden, Truther Talk and Aydan’s Road to Recovery ‘The Truth About Love’ is a funny, sexy, heartwarming and introspective look at what else… love. It starts by following the life of young, sympathetic artist, Will, who has just… Continue Reading
First Review of Truth About Love – Can You Handle The Truth?
First web review of my new book: by Cari-Lee at Recipe for Anarchy After all of the ridiculous hype over the 50 Shades fiasco, myself, along with many others put a cry out for something a lot more real for… Continue Reading
The Truth About Love – Author’s Introduction
The Truth About Love – A Novel About Finding Your (More Than) One. By Liam Scheff On your PC, Mac, Phone and Tablet at Amazon.com Author’s Introduction I started to write this as a self-help book; an investigative syncretic amalgam… Continue Reading
50 Shades of Grey is Not Sexy, It’s Depressing
50 Shades of Grey is not a sexy book. It’s a depressing book written by a depressed English TV executive mom who does not know sex. The book series that started as Twilight fan fiction…pause….is about a 22-year old virgin… Continue Reading
Our Sex-Shaming Culture
Our sex-shaming culture gets its marching orders directly from one place: The Bible. Specifically, the Old Testament (which informs the New Testament, so don’t feel superior, Jesus people). The “Bible” emerges from the warring herding cultures of the ancient Near… Continue Reading
The Six Varieties of Marriage
by Liam There are six varieties of marriage. You either marry an: • Acquaintance (an arranged marriage) • Friend (someone you know and like) • Best Friend (someone you love and want to share almost every thought with) • Business… Continue Reading
Jealousy, a Capitalist Invention
Q: If you care about someone, aren’t you jealous if she (or he) cares about someone else, too? A: Jealousy. It’s trained into us. There is an innate sense of wanting to be assured that the love you’re receiving isn’t… Continue Reading
You Might Be Human If…
by Liam Are you truly monogamous, or are you just trying reeaally hard to be? If you’re in a relationship, and you know that you love your partner, but you can’t stop thinking about sexual attractions to other people…well. You… Continue Reading
You Are My Everything
by Liam Scheff After a number of laps across the dating pool, you’ve finally done it. You’ve met someone. And this one feels serious. The way you talk with each other. There’s always so much to say. You stayed… Continue Reading
Real Sex
by Liam I’m not a great fan of the condom, not because I’ve never used one (I have), but because I think people use them more for a feeling psychological security than any physical ‘protection’ they confer. I suppose I… Continue Reading
The Three Phases of Human Psychological Development Through History
by Liam Scheff As I write my new book, I’ll pause to sketch a short picture in black and white of what I’m finding in the piles of research I’m reading and listening to. The new book is about the… Continue Reading
Crazy, Stupid, Non-Monogamy
In the movie “Crazy, Stupid Love,” Cal (Steve Carell) is dumped by his wife who has had sex with someone else (Kevin Bacon – always up to no good). So, they split up. Cal then gets lessons in picking up… Continue Reading
Notes from the Non-Monogamous
by Liam. America. You are one fucked-up bunch of assholes. And it is both your fault, and not. It is your cultural inheritance, and the only way to change that is intentionally. But don’t take my word for it. Please… Continue Reading
A Snapshot of Marriage in Hong Kong
Taking a look at relationship patterns around the world, it’s clear that “monogamy” exists in name only. From Kinsey.org: “The only form of marriage now legal in Hong Kong is the Western Christian form of monogamous marriage. The old Chinese… Continue Reading
Mutual Genital Ownership?
Shouldn’t relationships be more about communication… and less about mutual genital ownership – and the neurosis, panic, and jealousy-enforced “togetherness” that it creates? Make the rules for your own partnerships.
We’re Free! Let’s Enslave Each Other!
What would life be like if our greatest goal in life was not to own someone else’s freedom? by Liam Scheff As we grow up, we suffer the slings and arrows of childhood and adolescence. We’ve undergone the imprecise tutelage… Continue Reading
Kiss and Cuddle: Elloa Atkinson’s Huff-Post Confession
An Open Letter to Elloa Atkinson on Why Her Cheating Heart May Not Be Such a Bad Thing by Liam Scheff Writer and speaker Elloa Atkinson wrote an article, published on the Huffington Post, in which she admitted her attraction… Continue Reading
The Monogamy Trap
by Liam Scheff Love and marriage. Goes together like a…cultural trap? Anti-freedom top-down control gambit? A witch hunt? Too abrupt? Let me start over. Let me offer a point of view from an alien perspective: imagine that what I’m saying… Continue Reading
Natural Culture?
Our culture is built on the notion that two people must be everything to each other: Sexually, socially, psychologically, physically, therapeutically, monetarily, parentally, spiritually, religiously, politically and in every other practical sense. If people “fail” to achieve some notion of… Continue Reading
You Are Free To Fall In Love
You Are Free To fall in love and: • Bind your life to one another’s • Be responsible for each other’s health • Manage each other’s bank accounts • Become each other’s sole therapist, confidante and counselor • Cut out… Continue Reading
We Must Cancel HIV Testing
by Liam Scheff We Must Cancel HIV Testing. We must do so because: • HIV tests are not specific. • They are used to target specific populations of homosexual men, drug users and Africans. • They are “positive” (reactive) for… Continue Reading
We’re All Going to be Genetically-Altered Lab Rats for Freedom. Soon! NOW!
– BonoBama! by Liam Scheff Headline: Monsanto Excited to Destroy Africa (as they have India and the United States). Crowds Cheer! Degrees of Joy and Sorrow… Bono Vox, once Paul Hewson, lead iPod salesman from the U2 Corporation, International, wants… Continue Reading
Condoms and The HIVEMIND
F*cking is the least of our problems. by Liam Scheff F*cking liars. The government sex-scare agencies love to lie about the terrible dangers of sex. Don’t they know the real danger? (The most dangerous thing about sex is? Hold that… Continue Reading
Oh, Romantics!
Oh, Romantics, please listen to Stephanie Coontz’s brilliant observations in the first half of this lecture (before she starts giving measures of ‘remedies’ for our culture, which I find less convincing): Her founding thesis, which I think is entirely correct:… Continue Reading
John B Wells Caravan to Midnight with Guest Liam Scheff – Excerpt 1 – HIV Religion
Exclusive excerpt from my 2.5 hour “religions of science” interview with John B Wells: The HIV Religion. Liam Scheff joins John B. Wells on Caravan to Midnight to talk about the HIV Religion – no, it’s not a science. Liam… Continue Reading
Marriage on the New Frontier
by Liam Scheff There are precious few monogamous animals on earth — 3 to 5% is the current reckoning — and none are very much like us (a kind of tapeworm is the most ‘monogamous,’ if that’s an indication). There… Continue Reading
Marriage 2.0
by Liam Scheff A friend was asking me about this notion of not being ‘married’ to strict monogamy. He was saying that he understood – and had even had a ‘slip’ here or there, but worried it would disrupt his… Continue Reading
American Schadenfreude
by Liam Scheff Americans love to watch people suffer humiliating break-ups. At least, the circulation of People, US, and the National Enquirer would make us think so. They reflect tales of ‘cheating’ on a daily basis for our ‘schadenfreude‘ –… Continue Reading
Are You A SAPSAC?
by Liam Scheff Are you in a SAC – a ‘Standard American Couple?’ Or are you a SAP – ‘Standard American Pairing?’ If you answer “Yes” to any of the following questions, you may be a SAP. 1. Do you… Continue Reading
You Are Free!
by Liam Scheff You are free! To fall in love and then bind yourself to a mortgage locked into a suburban half-floor for the rest of your life and never experience that surge of feelings again that made you fall… Continue Reading