Housekeeping: PAPER will now be updating on Tuesdays. And now, on to the links:
Interview with Max Blumenthal, author of Republican Gomorrah. It’s a must-read for understanding what’s behind the nonsense social conservatives want to inflict on us.
Some thoughts on sex and morality, especially considering Alabama’s absurd dildo ban. And here’s more on just how common sex toy use is.
A new study zipping through the blogosphere postulates that the Pill makes women prefer less masculine men. That’s the study in a nutshell; there’s some interesting stuff here, and the scientists are wise to conclude with wishing for more research to be done.
HPV vaccines could wipe out cervical cancer within 50 years. Remember, though, that we all have to get the vaccine for this to happen.
Guttmacher’s in the news, for a study on the costs of unsafe abortions in developing countries and by showing that abortion restriction does NOT reduce abortion. And in horrifying abortion news, Oklahoma now mandates that personal details of all abortions be shown online. Thankfully the constitutionality of this measure is being challenged—but it’s more proof that anti-choicers will sink to any low.
Speaking of low, here’s some debunking of anti-choice starlet Lila Rose.
No surprise: women’s genital self-esteem affects their sex lives.
A new book studies why women have sex. This book takes an evolutionary psychology bent, and the author interviewed in the linked article seems… reasonable. But isn’t there something horribly wrong when this question is being seriously asked?
About Outrage, the new HBO documentary chronicling how repressed gay lawmakers have hurt GLBTQ Americans. Incidentally, Republican Gomorrah discusses this to an extent, too.
Good news for gays in California: Schwarzenegger signs two important GLBTQ rights measures into law.
And here’s some more on DADT. As in, some real nonsense that tries to defend the policy. Read it and get your bile up.
Think your kid is getting sex ed? You may be mistaken, like New Yorkers are.
Speaking of nonsense, Egypt is now freaking out about fake hymen kits, saying it will promote promiscuity in women. Yo, drop the patriarchy already.
Florida schools are banning freak dancing. Hm. Meanwhile, here in our own fair city, a pedophile has just been ordained as a minister at a Pentecostal church. We guess they learned nothing from the ongoing Catholic example.
Speaking of sex offenders, doesn’t it make sense to differentiate between violent and nonviolent? The Courier-Journal thinks so. Read the comments at your own risk.
Weird: bestiality is going to the SCOTUS. Well, for the record, PAPER does not approve of bestiality.
Yay Al Franken! His amendment barring companies that discourage female employees from filing sexual harrassment suits from sweet government contracts passed. Awesome. And, eat it, Halliburton.
Finally, on a fun very NSFW note: http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/rasputins-foot-long-preserved-penis”>Rasputin’s preserved penis is a star exhibit at the Russian sex and erotica museum.
