Porn is What We Have Done with Our Freedom

Porn is What We Have Done with Our Freedom by Erin Solaro     Relax. This is not your usual piece on pornography, your usual “We know porn does real and terrible damage to millions of human beings and their society, but no one seems to know how to deal with it.” Nor is this [...]

Perfume and the Memory of War

I just noticed that the great perfumes are French, usually either just pre-Great War or between the two World Wars…  This essay followed.  It was first published on Military.com in the Warfighter’s Forum, then led to my speaking engagement at Brown University’s Front Line, First Person:  Iraq War Stories Conference.  Perfume and the Memory of [...]