{"id":13651,"date":"2012-02-21T10:33:59","date_gmt":"2012-02-21T15:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=13651"},"modified":"2012-02-21T10:34:27","modified_gmt":"2012-02-21T15:34:27","slug":"uk-catholic-sex-ed-includes-materials-plagiarized-from-john-normans-gor-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/02\/21\/uk-catholic-sex-ed-includes-materials-plagiarized-from-john-normans-gor-series\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Catholic sex-ed includes materials plagiarized from John Norman&#8217;s <em>Gor<\/em> series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Really, it&#8217;s another of those stories that are &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cheryl-morgan.com\/?p=12980\" target=\"_blank\">so weird that it&#8217;s too good to verify<\/a>&#8220;:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>As The <em>Guardian<\/em> reports today, Catholic faith schools in Lancashire have been handing out copies of a booklet called \u201cPure Manhood: How to become the man God wants you to be\u201d, written by an American fundamentalist preacher. The booklet includes statements like this: \u201cthe homosexual act is disordered, much like contraceptive sex between heterosexuals. Both acts are directed against God\u2019s natural purpose for sex &mdash; babies and bonding.\u201d It also insists that, \u201cscientifically speaking, safe sex is a joke\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>[. . .]<\/p>\n<p>Weird ideas about sex, however, are not the only strange things in the booklet. All sorts of aspects of macho-ness are explored, including the need for real men to kill animals to prove their virility. There is a particularly bizarre passage about how to kill a wolf by sacrificing a goat. I won\u2019t go into the gory details. The important point is that, as this blog post reveals, that piece of text was lifted from the book <em>Beasts of Gor<\/em> by John Norman.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Really, it&#8217;s another of those stories that are &#8220;so weird that it&#8217;s too good to verify&#8220;: As The Guardian reports today, Catholic faith schools in Lancashire have been handing out copies of a booklet called \u201cPure Manhood: How to become the man God wants you to be\u201d, written by an American fundamentalist preacher. The booklet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,4,79,57,28],"tags":[196,255,85],"class_list":["post-13651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-britain","category-education","category-humour","category-media","tag-lgbt","tag-sexuality","tag-sf"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-3yb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13651"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13653,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13651\/revisions\/13653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}