- Imagine Sex and the City, but instead of New York City, the action takes place in Accra, Ghana. This is called An African City, a Ghanaian series that debuted on YouTube two years ago. The girlfriends are five fashionable African women raised abroad who have returned home to continue high-powered careers, look for love and have sex. Lots of sex.
* Sex And ‘An African City’: A Steamy Ghanaian Show You Don’t Want To Miss (NPR)
* See also: Africa’s Sex and the City (BBC)
- Should it prove legitimate, inquiry about Ted Cruz’s sex life is more than just “gossip” — as Politico’s Jack Shafer likewise suggested … Their duplicity, often cloaked in “family values” political rhetoric, profoundly affects the LGBT populations against whose interests they consistently voted, even while engaging in the exact behavior they deemed despicable.
* Why Ted Cruz’s sex life matters: The GOP’s toxic “family values” charade deserves continued scrutiny (Salon)
- “We are living in a new sex bureaucracy,” warn Harvard Law School professors Jacob Gersen and Jeannie Suk in an upcoming paper for the California Law Review, titled “Bureaucratic Sex Creep.” They explained, “The bureaucracy dedicated to that regulation of sex is growing. It operates largely apart from criminal enforcement, but its actions are inseparable from criminal overtones and implications.”
* How the Government Stole Sex (Reason)
- Late Friday, attorneys representing [the city of] Dallas (Texas) responded to Exxxotica’s request for a temporary injunction with a thick legal document that probably should have come wrapped in brown paper. … offering extremely detailed examples of “lewd behavior” captured on video and in photos that have been filed under a separately sealed document. The document discusses incidents of “erotic touching of human genitals” and simulated masturbation.
* Dallas defends its Exxxotica porn expo ban with a sexually explicit response (Dallas News/City Hall Blog)
- I keep saying it: Facebook is an enemy of culture and free speech. How chilling to be an artist who makes political art, and get shaken down for ID … Illma Gore, an artist who identifies as a gender-fluid futurist, recently rose from the niche world of politically charged artwork and exploded onto everyone’s radar with a now-viral pastel rendering called “Make America Great Again,” featuring a very nude Donald Trump with—notably—a very small penis. “Then I got a call from Trump’s team and they told me to take it down, and Facebook banned me without much of a reason. It’s happened a few times, but this last time they said: “It’s going to be more permanent.” And that I had to “upload my ID.”
Evan Rachel Wood Talks To Illma Gore About That Trump Art (Nylon)
- Out of 537 revenge porn requests in the second half of 2015 (the first few months since it enacted the policy), Microsoft agreed to take down or block the content in question 338 times, or 63%, it says in “Content Removal Report.” Why wouldn’t Microsoft comply with 37% of cases? Two reasons, Microsoft’s director of corporate responsibility explained in a blog post …
* Microsoft took action on 63% of ‘revenge porn’ requests (VentureBeat)
- The peak body for Australian sex workers has called for better education to help children deal with pornography if they are exposed to it, rather than increased censorship. Scarlet Alliance – the Australian Sex Workers Association – has cautioned: “It is easier to blame sex workers and porn for misogyny and violence than to acknowledge that violence against women, sexual assault and sex education are issues that need to be dealt with by society at a foundational level.”
* Sex workers call for better education around kids and porn – not censorship (Sydney Morning Herald)
- “… with a great influx of users comes an increased likelihood for foul play, the survey found: 39 percent of women who use Tinder said they have felt harassed on the app, followed closely by 38 percent of women who use OKCupid reporting the same thing. Perhaps not surprisingly, men surveyed reported a much lower frequency of harassment.”
* New report shows which dating apps are better for long-term relationships, worse for harassment (Daily Dot)
- Victims of some of the worst sexual abuse perpetrated by the Catholic Church are being denied access to a vast archive of clergy crime, as the church continues to ensure the offending is kept secret, despite the files being handed over to the royal commission.
* Secret archive of paedophile crime kept by Catholic Church’s insurers (The Age AU)
Main post photo via BBC, Credit: Eveliz Tomety/Studio Eveliz.
