This is the first of two ruminations derived from a reading of a 2008 academic paper by Walter Scheidel of Stanford University, 'Monogam...

Diodorus Siculus claimed that near Memphis, within Lake Acherousia, there was a House of the Dead to which, under the Egyptian rites of t...

I have made no secret to my true friends of my polyamorous nature. I not only make no apology for it, it helps define who I am. It is by no ...