The SAIU will be hosting Greta Christina for a lecture at 5:30pm in Jordan 124.

Bio:

Greta Christina is one of the most widely- read and well- respected bloggers in the atheist blogosphere. She has been writing about atheism and skepticism for her own cleverly-named Greta Christina’s Blog since 2005, and is currently the regular atheism correspondent for the online political magazine, AlterNet. She has been writing professionally since 1989, on topics including sexuality and sex-positivity, LGBT issues, politics, culture, and whatever crosses her mind. Her writing has appeared in numerous magazines, newspapers, and anthologies, including Ms., Skeptical Inquirer, the Chicago Sun-Times, three volumes of Best American Erotica, and the anthologies The Philosophy of Sex, PoMoSexuals, Looking Queer, Bisexual Politics, and Everything You Know About God Is Wrong. She is currently editor of the nnual Best Erotic Comics series. She lives in San Francisco with her wife, Ingrid.

Talk summary:

Atheism and sexuality. The sexual morality of traditional religion tends to be based, not on solid ethical principles, but on a set of taboos about what kinds of sex God does and doesn’t want people to have. And while the sex-positive community offers a more thoughtful view of sexual morality, it still often frames sexuality as positive by seeing it as a spiritual experience. What are some atheist alternatives to these views? How can atheists view sexual ethics without a belief in God? And how can atheists view sexual transcendence without a belief in the supernatural?

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