Shermer writes that he got married a few months back. I wonder what the new Mrs. Shermer makes of these allegations: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/anomalous-events-that-can-shake-one-s-skepticism-to-the-core/
The whole sexual harassment thing at atheist conventions seems ironic, considering that for generations both christian authority figures and many atheists themselves have maintained that nonbelief in god can lead to a swinging sex life. I've read biographies of several well known atheists - Denis Diderot, Percy Shelley, Bertrand Russell, off the top of my head - and they all articulated some kind of ideological message linking their atheism with sexual freedom. Even female atheists like Emma Goldman, Ayn Rand and Madalyn Murray O'Hair have said things along those lines.
So what has actually happened? When you gather a bunch of atheists together for a conference, do you have a sexual utopia going on in the hotel rooms upstairs? Apparently not. But then people made other bad predictions about atheists' behavior before we had enough atheists around to supply empirical evidence. Godless women still reject non-alpha males, just like other women.
Nothing in that article says something about sexual harassment.
Also don't confuse disbelief in God with atheists activism. One doesn't go to a convention about atheism because one doesn't believe. On goes because one cares enough about one's own beliefs to spread them. I wouldn't expect high openness to experience scores with that crowd.
The bigger LW events that I experienced for example do have a lot more physical intimacy, both male-male and male-female than "normal society" and what I would expect to be the norms at an atheist convention.
Despite that conventions with a high percentage of guys are in general not likely to lead to a lot of sexual activity.
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