Tag: July 15, 2006

HOW WAS sex education before Christianity?

Many would think of bacchanalian instructions and phallic exercises to please promiscuous Olympian gods. But this picture better belongs to the Greek Homerian period and to some brazen Roman emperors’ reign, and does not reflect the sexual mores of the Graeco-Roman Classical Age (4 B.C. to 2 A.D.). Sexual standards were close to Christianity’s already, historians like Pierre Hadot, K.J. Dover, and Michel Foucault would point.

A different fireworks display greeted America’s celebration of the Fourth of July last week.

Six short-range rockets and one long-range Taepodong-2 missile(which experts say would reach as far as Alaska or Hawaii) were fired by North Korea, but failed to reach their target. The short-range rockets landed on the Sea of Japan, while Taepodong-2, North Korea’s most advanced missile system, malfunctioned a minute after lift-off.

WITH the increasing cases of sexual abuse, unintended pregnancies, and sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) among teenagers, the Department of Education (DepEd) wants sex education for high school and elementary students to complement sex instruction from parents.

MEMORIES can be a treasure trove of creative ideas and playful sensations for artist Mark Salvatus, raids his den of childhood memories in his second solo exhibit, Eyes Wide Open.

UNIVERSAL Pictures’ United 93, reliving the story of the hijacked United Airlines Flight 93 and the last stand of its 40 passengers, evokes bittersweet memories of the 9/11 tragedy.

Written and directed by Paul Greengrass, the man behind the highly-acclaimed The Bourne Supremacy and Bloody Sunday, United 93 trails the fate of the plane that terrorists hijacked to hit the White House but which crashed on a rural field in Pennsylvania.