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		<title>Why the Church Made You Want the Most Explicit Porn</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Porn Conversations #18 In an earlier post about nude beaches, I mentioned in passing that psychologists describe porn in levels — level one being the mildest, level five the most explicit. I gave it one sentence and moved on. My inbox did not move on. Enough of you wrote asking what that actually means...]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Beast at the Table</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Every generation has named its villain the Antichrist. Napoleon. Hitler. Mussolini. Henry Kissinger. Reagan. Obama. The list is long, and the accusers have always been sincere. I carry that history in mind as I write this. Accusations of this kind have a way of revealing more about the accuser than the accused — fear dressed...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Amsterdam: A City That Shines After Dark</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 10:42:38 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Gina and I just returned from four nights in Amsterdam — our first visit — and the city defied nearly every expectation we arrived with. Coming from Barcelona, the visual shift was jarring. Amsterdam runs in browns, grays, and beiges. Monochromatic in a way Barcelona never is. Then the weather piled on: mostly cloudy, cold,...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Is It Possible to Be Addicted to Porn?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 10:14:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Porn Conversations #17 He cornered me at an industry conference, shoulders already slumping before he said a word. A Christian music executive I&#8217;d known for years. Without preamble, without my asking, he announced that he was a sex addict. A porn addict. He told everyone, male and female colleagues, young interns, whoever crossed his...]]></description>
		
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		<title>My Love/Hate Relationship with Claude AI</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 14:24:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[(Co-authored with the AI in question, who has no shame) A confession: I asked Claude to help me write this post about Claude. Claude agreed immediately, which either proves remarkable self-awareness or a troubling lack of self-preservation instinct. We’re going with self-awareness. Let’s start with love, because I’m a generous man. What I love —...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Why I Open My Laptop Instead of Reaching Over</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 11:55:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Porn Conversations #16 The question arrived in my inbox last week from a reader who&#8217;d been married thirty-one years. &#8220;Randy,&#8221; he wrote, &#8220;my wife and I haven&#8217;t had sex in four months. When I feel that itch, I just&#8230; open my laptop.&#8221; He didn&#8217;t ask me to fix it. He just wanted to say...]]></description>
		
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