Moments In Flow

Tag: sexual

  • WHEN TWERKING STOPPED: #METOO, COVID, AND THE RISE OF THE NIGHTCLUB HALL MONITOR

    If during a night out back in 2014 you said that “one day they’ll ban twerking”, your friends would have literally called the ambulance, requested that they bring a straightjacket and ship you straight to the mental ward, because that’s exactly how crazy that sounded like. Twerking, back then, was literally a sport. They had…

  • THE PROTESTANT BEDROOM: HOW THE MORAL REGISTER OF THE REFORMATION PRODUCED A CULTURE OF SEXUAL FRIGIDITY, AND WHY NO SWIPE WILL FIX IT

    The previous pieces in this series followed the money, the land, and the machine. This one follows the body. Because the same moral technology that was used to keep the base divided—the buffer, the tutelage, the protection racket dressed as providence—was also applied to the most intimate transaction of all, and the results are measurable.…

  • The Uranian and the Gone Native: Two Threats to the Same Order

    How the 19th-century state pathologized both the man who loved men and the colonizer who crossed the line—and why the German response to that history became the foundation of European liberty There is a moment in Friedrich Schiller’s Aesthetic Education of Man—the Sixth Letter, written in 1795—where he draws a distinction that the 19th century…

  • The Intimacy OSHA Paradox: How Progressive Compliance Bureaucracy Adopted Incel Logic

    The progressive cultural vanguard built a framework for human intimacy that is substantively identical to the logic it claims to despise. The consent checklist is the incel spreadsheet. The compliance audit is the black pill. The predator wins either way. 1. The Toxic Waste Pool Double Standard When a predatory corporation uses economic leverage to…

  • THE LIFE STAGE TRAP

    HOW INSTITUTIONS WEAPONIZE AGE CATEGORIES TO CAPTURE RESPONSIBILITY, DISCIPLINE REPRODUCTION, AND SEGREGATE THE ELITE Classification: Socio-Legal Blog Post | Series: Total Institutional Adsorption | Jurisdictions: Anglo-American Core, with EU/French Counterpoint INTRODUCTION The previous posts in this series examined the employer-sponsored visa as a choke point, the portable visa as anti-capture technology, the startup city as…