One of the most important articles of the decade. “Regular readers of The Fact Checker know that we have looked skeptically at various estimates of the number of youths involved in the sex trade. All too often, the estimates were based on flimsy or out-of-date data, leading to estimates that strained credulity. … Now a…
So basically, a whole lot of people (including me) now won’t be able to work in a Starbucks because of a right-wing Christian anti-porn organization that is known for making false statements, in partnership with the right-wing Christian anti-porn group formerly known as Morality in Media. Censorship is taking over. “Starbucks said Friday it would…
“People are taking to the internet to find Pokémon Go sex partners. And we’re not talking about a kinky minority, here—there are so many hookup ads related to the game that ‘Pokémon Go and Blow’ might just usurp Netflix and Chill, or at least become this year’s leading lazy sex pun.” * Close Encounters of…
“Led by some of the nation’s most anti-gay politicians and even the head of an anti-gay hate group, Republicans late Tuesday voted on and passed the final draft of the GOP 2016 platform. … “Opposition to marriage equality, nonsense about bathrooms, an endorsement of the debunked psychological practice of “pray the gay away” — it’s…
“Republicans are taking a cue from Utah in drafting their official party platform. An amendment to the platform, which will come up for a vote Monday or Tuesday, cracks down on the porn industry. It was proposed by Mary Forrester, a delegate from North Carolina who told Yahoo! News that she worked on it with…
This is so good I keep re-reading it. “Mary Harron’s American Psycho (2000) is a lot of things. A satire about the glittering rot of 1980s America. An excellent showcase for Christian Bale’s skills as an actor. An adaptation that bests the novel it’s based on. But more than anything else the film is a…
“Avid Life Media (ALM), the parent company of hacked adultery website Ashley Madison, is facing a US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) probe over its use of automated software called ‘fembots’ on its websites, which impersonated real women to lure in male customers.” * Hacked adultery website Ashley Madison hit with FTC probe over use of…
“A Cambridge academic walked in naked at a meeting at the Faculty of Economics in protest against the results of the EU referendum. Victoria Bateman had written on her breasts and stomach ‘Brexit leaves Britain naked’.” * ‘Brexit leaves Britain naked’: Cambridge academic stages nude protest against outcome of EU referendum (Telegraph UK) “Proving like…
“One of the most surprising facts about online pornography is how little concrete data exists about the ways in which it’s consumed. The most thorough collection of statistics to date was released six years ago by a company called Online MBA, but there are no details about how its information was gathered. The most frequently…
Some of you may have been wondering why this is the first Sex News item about this story, which has been in headlines for some time now. I wanted to wait until we heard the story in her words. “Celeste Guap, the 18-year-old Oakland sex worker who had sex with over a dozen Oakland Police…