- “For the first time, thanks to a bill President Barack Obama signed on Friday, victims of sexual assault now have a specific set of rights under federal law when it comes to the evidence collected from their own bodies. “Beginning today, our nation’s laws stand firmly on the side of survivors of sexual assault,” said Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), who sponsored the Sexual Assault Survivors’ Rights Act. The bill passed unanimously in both the House and the Senate last month before heading to Obama’s desk.”
* President Obama just signed a “bill of rights” for survivors of sexual assault (Vox)
- “The Washington Post has obtained an extremely crass recording, above, on which Donald Trump converses with Access Hollywood host Billy Bush about women aboard a bus on the set of Days of Our Lives. “And when you’re a star they let you do it. You can do anything,” Trump said. “Grab them by the pussy. You can do anything.” The GOP is in a panic as outrage with Trump boils over.
* Trump Was Recorded in 2005 Bragging About Grabbing Women “by the Pussy” (Slate)
- “State agents raided the Dallas headquarters of adult classified ad portal Backpage and arrested Chief Executive Officer Carl Ferrer on Thursday following allegations that adult and child sex-trafficking victims had been forced into prostitution through escort ads posted on the site.”
* Backpage raided, CEO arrested on sex-trafficking charges (Washington Post)
See also: How shutting down Backpage, ‘the world’s top online brothel,’ could hurt sex workers (Washington Post)
- “On Monday morning, Facebook introduced Marketplace, a new section on its mobile app that allowed its users to buy and sell things with their friends and strangers. By the evening, the social giant was apologizing for an issue with the section, which featured posts that included illegal drugs, dogs, guns, and sexual services.”
* Facebook Marketplace Goes Wrong: Sex, Guns and Baby Hedgehogs (NYT)
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- “The Free Speech Coalition and the Center for Democracy and Technology, a digital civil liberties group, have agreed to work together to advocate use of the encryption protocol HTTPS for adult sites.”
* FSC Pushes to Make Adult Sites More Secure (XBIZ)
- “The chief executive officer of the website Rentboy.com has pleaded guilty in New York to promoting prostitution. Jeffrey Hurant faces up to 21 months in prison following his plea Friday in Brooklyn. The successful site operated for nearly 20 years in an open and racy way, with male escorts paying for ads to attract new — mainly male — customers. That came to an abrupt end last year when law enforcers raided Rentboy’s Manhattan offices.”
* Rentboy.com CEO pleads guilty to promoting prostitution (AP/Yahoo)
- “Several sports elites, like Muhammad Ali, have taken temporary vows of celibacy before a fight to preserve aggression and concentration. Now, researchers at the University of Florence in Italy suggest sex before sports could actually help, not hurt, your athletic performance.”
* Sex Before Running Is Actually Good For You (Medical Daily)
- “Artists in Idaho claimed a victory against government censorship this week when a federal judge granted a permanent injunction against enforcement of a 40-year old law that prohibits simulated sex acts in performances with “serious literary, artistic, scientific or political value.””
* Idaho Caves on Enforcing Obscenity Law (Courthouse News)
Main post image via GRACE HARTZEL PHOTOGRAPHED BY ROE ETHRIDGE FOR DOCUMENT JOURNAL NO. 9, A/W 2016 (Portraits of Girls)
