Greta Christina has been writing professionally since 1989, on topics including atheism, sexuality and sex-positivity, LGBT issues, politics, culture, and whatever crosses her mind. She is author of
The Way of the Heathen: Practicing Atheism in Everyday Life, of
Comforting Thoughts About Death That Have Nothing to Do with God, of
Coming Out Atheist: How to Do It, How to Help Each Other, and Why, of
Why Are You Atheists So Angry? 99 Things That Piss Off the Godless, and of
Bending: Dirty Kinky Stories About Pain, Power, Religion, Unicorns, & More, and is editor of
Paying For It: A Guide by Sex Workers for Their Clients. She has been a public speaker for many years, and many of her talks can be seen on YouTube. Her writing has appeared in multiple magazines and newspapers, including Ms., Penthouse, Chicago Sun-Times, On Our Backs, and Skeptical Inquirer, and numerous anthologies, including
Everything You Know About God Is Wrong and three volumes of
Best American Erotica. (Any views she expresses in this blog are solely hers, and do not necessarily represent this organizations.) She lives in San Francisco with her wife, Ingrid. You can email her at gretachristina (at) gmail (dot) com, or follow her on
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I once read that butterflies are called so, because people used to believe that they would eat the cream on top of fresh milk, or freh butter. The german word “schmetterling” also comes from this, “schmett” being an old word for cream.
I believe the “fly” part is there because they are flying around and stuff. 😀
I submit this image: http://pics.livejournal.com/eschewv/pic/0003zr7t
Flutterby
Carpets are neither cars, nor pets.
Why didn’t you say you were coming earlier, so there could be a get-together with your adulating readers?
If you have time, send mail or post something, and I’ll buy you a beverage of choice.
You live in DC? Bummer! I wish I could have scheduled a meet-up. But my schedule was totally packed. Outside the conference, I barely had time for one brief outing with family and one dinner with an old friend. Next time I do one of these, I’ll try to plan it so I have some time to meet my readers.