Men’s lack of paternity certainty is a fundamental sex inequality. Modern DNA testing, if applied systematically, could provide gender equality in knowledge of biological offspring. The social construction of legal paternity has defied reason, common sense, and justice. That indicates men’s subordinate social and political position with respect to vital aspects of ordinary life.
Samuel Johnson, a distinguished English literary intellectual, and James Boswell, Johnson’s popular & acclaimed biographer, discussed sexual behavior. … Read the post Johnson and Boswell on sexual behavior in the Age of Enlightenment
Studies of cuckolding (“extra-pair paternity”) must be appraised with appreciation for Brezhnev-era Soviet intellectual life. … Read the post studies of cuckolding in beyond Brezhnev-era Soviet intellectual life
Impotent men willing to be husbands tolerant of cuckolding can benefit greatly from their wives’ strong, independent sexuality. … Read the post being cuckolded is impotent husbands’ best hope for future
Francis Osborne’s Advice to a Son, a 17th-century English book that circulated widely among the English elite, addressed the four seas law of cuckoldry. … Read the post four seas law of cuckoldry in Osborne’s 17th-century Advice
Facing the ugly reality of domestic violence and anti-men child custody bias is necessary for hope and change. … Read the post domestic violence & child custody bias: Crabtree case
In 1871, the Supreme Court of Minnesota in Olson v. Johnson made clear that unmarried fathers essentially have the legal status of wallets. … Read the post fathers as wallets: legal history of child support & custody
Built upon the gynocentrism that humans share with other primates, anti-men gender discrimination in child custody is deeply entrenched historically. … Read the post gender discrimination in child custody prevalent historically
Showing lack of public concern for men’s paternity interest, a NY court declared a prisoner father of his wife’s child although she had no access to him. … Read the post New York court imposed false paternity on prisoner
Sexual asymmetry in information about maternity compared to paternity favors the evolution of female superiority in social communication. … Read the post paternity is crucible for social communication
Article 340 in the French Civil Code of 1804 established paternity choice for men, but that principle of French Revolution ideals was subsequently effaced. … Read the post paternity choice: an aborted principle of the French Revolution