An Oregon woman who tried to circumcise her 3-month-old son at home after reading the Old Testament and watching YouTube videos has been sentenced to five years of probation. Mother gets probation in home circumcision (KMTR)
This device came out maybe five or so years ago and is an attachment for your vacuum that you use to… wait for it… stimulate your clitoris. Yes indeed! Just pop this hard plastic tube on the end of your household appliance that suctions up dirt and grime and suction up your clit for fun! My nads hurt just writing about this (Searah’s Museum of Screwy Sex Toys, thanks Juliette!)
The Village Voice / Backpage sex trafficking lawsuit has been thrown out of court. A federal judge in St. Louis has thrown out the lawsuit accusing Village Voice Media of knowingly allowing a pimp to advertise a teenage prostitute’s sexual services on one of its websites. Judge throws out sex ads suit (TODAY Tech)
How does one talk like a woman, exactly? Article and interview on the science of speech therapy for people who are transitioning – specifically transgender female-to-male, with a bit of male-to-female info as well.. Learning to Speak Like a Woman (Wonderland)
A southwestern Missouri school district has denied accusations in a federal lawsuit that officials failed to protect a middle-school girl from being raped, calling the lawsuit “frivolous” and saying the girl “neglected to use reasonable means to protect herself.” The girl, identified as a 7th grade special education student, was raped twice during the course of two school years. Lawsuit: Mo. girl expelled for making rape claim (CBS News)
Anti-feminists are beginning to realize that overt misogyny isn’t really the selling point it used to be, and so now anti-feminism has taken a strange turn. Instead of pleading on behalf of men, anti-feminists claim that feminism is bad for women. Anti-feminist market theories of sexuality fail to explain the data (Slate)
Sure to get tongues wagging, Frederick Wiseman’s Crazy Horse offers audiences an all access look behind the scenes of the infamous Paris nightclub of the same name. Documentary master Frederick Wiseman (La Danse, Boxing Gym) spent ten weeks exploring the legendary Parisian cabaret club Crazy Horse, which boasts the greatest and most chic nude dancing in the world. TIFF 2011: Peek Behind the Curtain of a Paris Cabaret Club with the Trailer for CRAZY HORSE (Twitch Film)
The American Civil Liberties Union on Monday announced the first lawsuit of its “Don’t Filter Me” campaign, which will be filed against Missouri’s 4,100-student Camdenton R-III School District for alleged improper Web filtering practices toward educational lesbian, gay, transgender, and bisexual content. ACLU Files First Legal Case of LGBT Filtering Campaign (Education Week)
GoDaddy.com has rolled out prices for the first .XXX domain names, with adult content providers charged as much as 17 times the cost of a standard .com domain name. GoDaddy Charging Massive Premiums for .XXX Domains (PCMag)
As thousands of Texans lose access to crucial birth control and family planning services because of deep funding cuts, the state has somehow managed to allocate more funding for pro-life crisis pregnancy centers. Texas Funnels Tax Dollars to Pro-Life Organizations (Care2 Causes)
San Francisco video shoot on how people first learned about sex, thursday the 18th (tonight): TIME.com invites you to the Center for Sex & Culture to tell the story of how you learned about sex. Come be part of this video shoot! Call for Participants: Time.com Asks “How Did You Learn About Sex?” (Good Vibrations Magazine)
Online survey about lube use: The Center for Sexual Health Promotion at Indiana University is conducting a study about the language that men and women use, and the thoughts they have, when thinking about or discussing lubricants that are used for sexual activity. Call for Participants: Research on How People Talk About Lube (Charlie Glickman)
You may need to edit your Adblock FF add-on to view the video. I added “@@||ping.indieclicktv.com/www/delivery/*” as an exception and it worked after that. The video suggested I disable my adblocker, but, hmm, nah.
Yeah, that Missouri school thing… damn. The more you read about it, the more mind-bogglingly awful it gets. The sheer outrageousness of the way they’re blaming the victim is beyond the pale. The entire administration of that school needs to be horsewhipped and run out of town on a rail.
As far as Texas goes, it’s a battlefront state for fundamentalists and its manipulative dirtbag governor is running for President. It’s no surprise that his administration is making that kind of move.
You may need to edit your Adblock FF add-on to view the video. I added “@@||ping.indieclicktv.com/www/delivery/*” as an exception and it worked after that. The video suggested I disable my adblocker, but, hmm, nah.
Yeah, that Missouri school thing… damn. The more you read about it, the more mind-bogglingly awful it gets. The sheer outrageousness of the way they’re blaming the victim is beyond the pale. The entire administration of that school needs to be horsewhipped and run out of town on a rail.
As far as Texas goes, it’s a battlefront state for fundamentalists and its manipulative dirtbag governor is running for President. It’s no surprise that his administration is making that kind of move.
All kinds of unhappy news in this update, huh?