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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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 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
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
– 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
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, 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The ancient Hebrew tribe, sandwiched between the Assyrians, Persians and a dozen other competitive rivals, sought to differentiate themselves by creating a different sexual-social landscape than their non-Yahweh-worshiping peers. To do so, they made male homosexual relationships, which were not… Continue Reading
by Liam Scheff published at The Truth Barrier I’m almost human today, having reverted from whatever maudlin and darkly creative state the world usually extrudes me, into a more wide-open pose. Perhaps it was my intersection with a woman accelerating… Continue Reading
by Liam Scheff – A More Transparent Tribal Ritual For your consideration: You think the Reformation and Enlightenment turned back the darkness of Medieval religious meddling? Ha! and Ha! I say. Hardly. Let’s have a look at what religion has… Continue Reading
by Liam Scheff – The American Anti-Role Model (But Secret Role Model) I’m reading “Sex at Dawn,” by Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jethá (Link ), and it’s cracking open a long thought I’ve had for about 24 years (or all… Continue Reading