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Eric Cloward

Eric Cloward

Host of Stoic Coffee Break podcast and author of Stoicism 101; executive coach and former tech CTO specializing in practical Stoicism.

Jul 25, 2026

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think...
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I think...
3:02
It was one of those things that I wasn't sure that I was really noticing until I read this blog post.
3:11
I read yours, which definitely kind of popped that up.
3:15
But just a couple of weeks before that, I was reading this blog post.
3:20
I wish I could remember her name now.
3:21
I think she was like the standing philosopher or something like that on Substack.

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It's not all about just these feelings that come and go.
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Do you have any views on this type of thing in relation to Stoicism? Like, whether...
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Yeah, I...
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Yeah, I wouldn't say that I have any particular moral view on whether pornography is moral or not.
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When I'm Mormon, yes, it was obviously porn bad, evil, awful.
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But to them, anything that was sex outside of marriage was bad.
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And so you grow up with this very distorted view of what sex and sexuality is, which I found going into my first marriage was really challenging because she had joined the church later on.
36:36
And so her view of sex and my view of sex because of all this conditioning of sex is bad.

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