And… the mandatory HPV vaccine for 5th grade girls was pushed through by conservative christian Republican Gov. Rick Perry, who bypassed the legislature and signed it into law today. I think 2007 is going to be an interesting year. Snip: “By issuing an executive order, Perry apparently sidesteps opposition in the Legislature from conservatives and…

* I’ll start with this verrrrry interesting non-sex item that I hope doesn’t stay low on the radar, Teen accuses record companies of collusion, snip: “A 16-year-old boy being sued by five record companies accusing him of online music piracy accused the recording industry on Tuesday of violating antitrust laws, conspiring to defraud the courts…

I was scanning the news and saw this story, MySpace donates sex offender database to US center, and I thought, groggily over coffee, hm, that bugs me… why does that bug me… hmmm, sip… Snip: “News Corp.’s popular Internet social network MySpace said on Monday it will donate a national computer database on U.S. sex…

This week in teh chronic I waxed about the GayVn’s coming to town next month and the hot new (virtually unrecognized by AVN) wave of dyke porn — as seen in local pomo homo porno company Pink and White‘s ouvre and upcoming flick. Read all about it (and see nasty stills in an exclusive gallery)…

Wow, so as I read in the RE/Search email newsletter, it looks like the offer to buy out book distributor PGW is official — subject to the bankruptcy court’s approval, of course. But that means all of us will only be getting 70% of the money owed to us. Someone remind me the relevancy of…

Seems to me, that if you’re a pure-as-the-driven snow virgin until you get married to someone equally as sexually inexperienced and chaste in the eyes of a fundamentalist god, that you have every right, from the vantage point of blissfully bouncing on your sanctimoniously holy and blessed marriage bed, to withhold a lifesaving cancer vaccine…

This won’t do anything to stop me from getting those emails telling me I have a small penis (oh wait, those are from Jonno), but it’s interesting nonetheless. Snip from the San Jose Mercury News: “A man faces a sentence of up to 101 years in federal prison after being the first person in the…

* Great sex links over on Boing Boing — as usual, the blog moves so fast, blink and you miss them. I *love* the story Playboy centerfold pranks from the late 1960s — the astronauts had no idea they were carrying cheesecake until they were *on the moon* — so very cool. * Also, read…

So, as outlined in my last post about AMS bankruptcy, indy pub authors like me won’t be seeing a royalty check until June/July — pretty intense if this is what you live on, like I *did*. I’m not sure how I feel about the latest news delivered via the RE/Search newsletter, snip: “The Latest at…

This is a truly excellent piece about the Google sex blog breakdown — it certainly has more information about what happened than any other post or article so far, and it puts forth some constructive critical thought about Google’s emerging power issues. Full, excited disclosure: I’m featured throughout the piece, with quotes I’m proud of…