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In Focus

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Consent: the only condition?

While discussing contemporary sexual mores, ‘consent’ seems to be the only moral absolute, the only taboo still worth defending.   Steve Latham   J.G. Ballard, interviewed during the 1970s, predicted that in the future, there would no moral strictures on sexual activity. “Moral perversion” and “psychopathology” would be outmoded terms. […]

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Pandemic and The Plague

Shopping in the local supermarket, wearing my face mask, I feel like a criminal or spy, undercover, lurking around the shelves, trying to stay socially-distanced, out of people’s personal space.   Steve Latham   This is the future-present. Even with restrictions being eased, we have been marked, permanently, or at […]