* You’ll understand this week’s headline when you read Female Genital Mutilation at Cornell University, where Dan Savage discovers and reveals something horrifying going on behind closed doors: A pediatric urologist at Cornell—Dix Poppas—has been operating on little girls with what he judges to be oversized clitorises, cutting away important clitoral tissues, and then stitching…
Category: Sex News
Follow that story: Obama’s sex ed
It’s easy to miss seeing the good news about sex in politics and media these days. A week ago we saw some great news about sex ed in America finally materialize: NPR reported about the Obama administrations’ coming changes in Proven Sex-Ed Programs Get A Boost From Obama. Many of you will remember the article…
Monday nibbles: Apple censorship edition
* Above is a side-by-side of censored and uncensored panels from the award-winning print graphic novel that Tom Bouden based on Oscar Wilde’s “The Importance of Being Ernest.” Slate’s The Big Money reported that Apple had censored the gay kisses while leaving this explicit heterosexual sex scene from “Kick-Ass” as is. It took media controversy…
Finally, a clitoris study!
Break out the champagne! ScienceBlogs found a fabulous clitoris study, and yes, Martha, there is a G-spot. I love the penguins and balloons :) Image from this explicit gallery.
Follow that story: Teens charged child porn felonies for sexting
Back in January 2009, I wrote Kids Charged for Child Porn Violet Blue: When Teens Make Their Own Porn, Who’s Being Exploited? (for the San Francisco Chronicle). In the article, I reported on the alarming news that teens in different US locales were caught sending each other racy self-portraits with their phones, and were facing…
Major concerns: World Cup, HIV and sex trafficking in South Africa
Recent news items raise serious concerns about HIV and World Cup 2010: put them together and you’ll see why I’m obsessing about it The World Cup is in South Africa next weekend. South Africa has the highest recorded HIV rate in the world (one in five adults; 1400 new infections every day). FIFA is the…
Friday nibbles
A few nibbles to pass around the Death Star after your Thursday night stormtrooper three-way. Naughty nerds. * Stop Porn Culture? It’s an organization that begs to have its own questions answered, and here we find out all kinds of interesting things — including what Penn and Teller think about these anti-porn feminists. (ourpornourselves.org) *…
Monday nibbles: Oh so many nibbles
In case you’re at all wondering, I’m on four book deadlines right now. Two anthologies, two how-to guides. I’m really excited about one of the books; it is going to be an unexpected surprise. Meanwhile, the very notion of sex (if not the act, or lack of) continues to make people act all kinds of…
Toy store scandals: Good Vibes and the alien cult
Last week an article I had been writing and researching for several weeks went live on SF Appeal: Good VIbrations and the Clitoris Saving Alien Cult is an investigative piece you won’t want to miss. It was just such a bizarre story it had to be explored; I’m reposting about it here because I realized…
Hold the hypocrisy for a minute. Just a minute. please.
I don’t know where to begin, but I need to say something. It’s starting to become a problem for me. For me. And I’m the one who is supposed to be on the side of the people going, “ha! caught you! we knew it! see! I told you!” Except I’m not really on that side.…