An old-school radical anti-porn, anti-prostitution activist known for criminal antics is in the news again, portraying a heavily biased anti-sex-work survey as science, when in fact it’s the same message Melissa Farley has been screaming her entire career. Sadly, press outlets like Newsweek, Reuters, Jezebel and the Sydney Morning Herald are taking the bait, ignoring…
You know you’re in the wrong when Porn king Larry Flynt is questioning your morals. But Rupert Murdoch has threatened basic human rights through the phone hacking scandal, according to the Hustler magazine founder. Hustler Porn King Larry Flynt Questions Rupert Murdoch’s Morality (Sydney Morning Herald) In the flap over San Francisco’s proposed circumcision ban,…
Remember back in mid-May of this year when Florida lawmakers finally passed that anti-bestiality law they’d been working on for three legislative sessions — partially because of the legislators’ reluctance to discuss the bill because children sometimes attend legislative sesions? Remember more recently, when (according to the Sarasota Herald-Tribune) “a state representative was chastised for…
At Big Bear High School in San Bernardino County, somebody waited until the yearbook had been distributed before pointing out that one of the book’s photos featured a high school boy with his hand up his dance partner’s dress. Rather than doing what school administrators would have done back in my day– which is completely…
Barry Ardolf, 46, repeatedly hacked into his next-door neighbors’ Wi-Fi network in 2009, and used it to try and frame them for child pornography, sexual harassment, various kinds of professional misconduct and to send threatening e-mail to politicians, including Vice President Joe Biden. Wi-Fi–Hacking Neighbor From Hell Sentenced to 18 Years (Wired.com) Sex advice columnist…
This is a very big sex news roundup; I’m still fighting this awful summer flu (still congested and my brain is annoyingly slow), and at the same time there has been a lot going on in the world of sex news and culture lately. You may have noticed that I’ve been evolving the format of…
Sifting the imagined facts from the meaningless ones in the lengthy China Daily story “A Kiss of Life For Sex Toys” is even more work than doing that same task with articles about sex in the mainstream western media. The article in the state-run newspaper almost completely ignores China’s importance as a major producer of…
Michele Bachmann is seen as a strong candidate for the Republican nomination in the 2012 U.S. presidential election. She was the first to sign an ethics pledge for conservative endorsement “The Marriage Vow: A Declaration of Dependence upon MARRIAGE and FAMILY.” Among the vows includes the pledge to ban porn, to operate on the premise…
(This is one of the best articles I’ve read in a long time.) No operation that’s producing this much good TV needs to be airing so much female nudity; that’s the specious starting point of LA Times Mary McNamara’s column, the notion that nudity is not one ingredient in an R-rated stew of elements on…
The Village Voice has launched an investigation into the numbers behind Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore‘s anti-child-sex-trafficking campaign, and it turns out trans kids (and literally any underage “outsider” has been lumped into their statistics. “The real issue is that no one has called out Kutcher and Moore for their underlying thesis. The underage-prostitution panic…