You searched for Mencken - Mike South https://mikesouth.com/ The institute for the advance study of insensitivity and pornography Wed, 22 Jan 2025 02:46:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://i0.wp.com/mikesouth.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/favicon.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 You searched for Mencken - Mike South https://mikesouth.com/ 32 32 1788040 The Seduction and Corruption of PASS https://mikesouth.com/pass/the-seduction-and-corruption-of-pass-73793/ https://mikesouth.com/pass/the-seduction-and-corruption-of-pass-73793/#comments Sun, 18 Dec 2022 21:30:30 +0000 https://mikesouth.com/?p=73793 Seduction. Corruption. Destruction.  H.L. Mencken once wrote that “public health,” then known by the eugenically-tinged name, “hygiene,” represented “the corruption of medicine by morality.” “It is impossible to find a hygienist who does not debase his theory of the healthful with a theory of the virtuous,” he observed. In our time as well, a philosophical […]

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]]> https://mikesouth.com/pass/the-seduction-and-corruption-of-pass-73793/feed/ 4 73793 Will AVN’s Elimination of ‘Ethnic’ Categories Hurt Performers of Color? https://mikesouth.com/avn/will-avns-elimination-of-ethnic-categories-hurt-performers-of-color-57545/ https://mikesouth.com/avn/will-avns-elimination-of-ethnic-categories-hurt-performers-of-color-57545/#comments Wed, 03 Jun 2020 00:55:07 +0000 https://mikesouth.com/?p=57545 For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong. ~ H.L. Mencken From AVN’s homepage today: AVN goes full-woke in the wake of an embarrassing George Floyd post. How will this move affect producers and performers? Regardless of one’s personal feelings about the (extremely popular) interracial/IR niche in porn, a strong […]

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]]> https://mikesouth.com/avn/will-avns-elimination-of-ethnic-categories-hurt-performers-of-color-57545/feed/ 23 57545 Strange Mysteries, Staged Disappearances and The Appalachian Trail https://mikesouth.com/gossip/strange-disappearances-and-the-appalachian-trail-49136/ https://mikesouth.com/gossip/strange-disappearances-and-the-appalachian-trail-49136/#comments Wed, 31 Jul 2019 00:16:19 +0000 http://mikesouth.com/?p=49136 I’m a history buff, and the recent events (see bottom) have led me me ponder two fascinating cases of strange disappearances: those of early 20th century evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson, and early 21st century governor of South Carolina Mark Sanford. Each disappeared mysteriously and was later accused of taking a trip down the old Appalachian […]

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]]> https://mikesouth.com/gossip/strange-disappearances-and-the-appalachian-trail-49136/feed/ 1 49136 Naming the Patient at the Center of Porn’s Production Moratorium: Ethical Dilemmas and the Policy of AIDS Exceptionalism https://mikesouth.com/hiv/naming-the-patient-at-the-center-of-porns-production-moratorium-ethical-dilemmas-and-the-policy-of-aids-exceptionalism-24149/ https://mikesouth.com/hiv/naming-the-patient-at-the-center-of-porns-production-moratorium-ethical-dilemmas-and-the-policy-of-aids-exceptionalism-24149/#comments Mon, 16 Apr 2018 03:09:43 +0000 http://mikesouth.com/?p=24149 Let me begin by saying that I’m not a public health scholar, and let me add that I am also deeply suspicious and even skeptical of public health as a discipline. As another writer noted here, the immortal H.L. Mencken once wrote that public health (back then called “hygiene”) represented the corruption of medicine by morality. […]

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]]> https://mikesouth.com/hiv/naming-the-patient-at-the-center-of-porns-production-moratorium-ethical-dilemmas-and-the-policy-of-aids-exceptionalism-24149/feed/ 1 24149 PC Police pummel Heineken over dirty little sex worker Beer Girls https://mikesouth.com/prostitution/pc-police-pummel-heineken-over-dirty-little-sex-worker-beer-girls-23567/ https://mikesouth.com/prostitution/pc-police-pummel-heineken-over-dirty-little-sex-worker-beer-girls-23567/#respond Mon, 02 Apr 2018 23:48:59 +0000 http://mikesouth.com/?p=23567 Fear-mongering health group plays the “dirty little whores” card, and “protect” struggling young women right out of their jobs     You may have heard that last week, Dutch brewer Heineken pulled an advertisement amid accusations of racism, including one from Chance the Rapper.  In the spot, a bartender slides a bottle of Heineken Light past several black […]

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]]> https://mikesouth.com/prostitution/pc-police-pummel-heineken-over-dirty-little-sex-worker-beer-girls-23567/feed/ 0 23567 I am travelling to Tampa for the Tampa Show..y’all come on out and see us: https://mikesouth.com/politics/i-am-travelling-to-tampa-for-the-tampa-showyall-come-on-out-and-see-us-954/ https://mikesouth.com/politics/i-am-travelling-to-tampa-for-the-tampa-showyall-come-on-out-and-see-us-954/#respond Thu, 11 Sep 2003 21:35:01 +0000 http://www.mikesouth.com/politics/i-am-travelling-to-tampa-for-the-tampa-showyall-come-on-out-and-see-us-954/ When the world trade center was attacked 2 years ago Cori Love and I were in Tampa for this very show, it got cancelled but we haven’t nor will we forget how we felt that day. What amazes me is how the right wing zealots are quick to blame religious fundamentalism for this attack, fanatic […]

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