http://www.sumofallparts.com rants and ramblings from the ether Sat, 06 Oct 2007 11:57:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Love is much like religion in that it is an indefinable (though natural) construct that helps us feel comfortable and addresses our fears in the face of the facts of life - that we are alone, as we live and die. While religion and god make us feel better about ... http://www.sumofallparts.com/2007/10/06/love-crutch/ Personally, I have a hard time understanding sexual identification, primarily based on the idea of genetic sexuality. How can the population be broken down into women and men, for the purposes of sexual identification? Looking at gay communities, I can say that many men who are the object of gay male ... http://www.sumofallparts.com/2006/10/19/grand-fetishism/ Age is much less a defining characteristic than it once was, largely due to the internet. Now that there is a meeting of minds before the presentation of the body, ageism is becoming archaic. It works both ways...just as I have friends who might have thought that I was a ... http://www.sumofallparts.com/2006/10/10/generations/ After I sold out of my business, I ran. Fast. I have, in these past three years, been lucky enough to live on four continents. I have shot photo essays up and down the Mekong River through Vietnam and Cambodia. I have taught scuba diving to ... http://www.sumofallparts.com/2006/09/29/and-so-it-begins/