Some great news, some scary news.

admin — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:03:53 +0000

It’s been a relatively good week for gay rights in the US: a gay marriage vote passed the DC Council, and Houston elected an openly gay mayor. In California, however, it’s big business to oppose gay rights.

Here’s an interesting piece about biology, religion, and rights.

Over in Uganda, the fundie bigot who proposed the Kill the Gays Bill promises not to back down about the death penalty. We can only hope the other Ugandan legislators will vote this travesty down. Ironically, in the midst of the controversy, they have passed a law banning female genital mutilation.

On the conflict of psychology, profits, and transgendered people.

Congress just passed a remarkably progressive and sane appropriations bill, which ends abstinence-only funding, allots money for sexual health research and teen pregnancy prevention, and improves abortion access, among other very good things. Also, the healthcare reform bill can do much good for sex ed.

Lois Capps [D-CA] responds to Stupak.

On the power of pro-choice men as allies.

Egypt is moving progressively on abortion.

Make love, not porn: a sex-positive site reminding people that porno sex isn’t all that realistic. You can email suggestions—go on, we all have our little porn gripes.

See classism, sexism, and sex-negativity intertwine here, where no one believes a prosititute would know what hypocrisy is. But, in happy sex work news, Nevada now allows male prostitutes.

A new study says casual sex doesn’t bother young people, but many young people have been left with misconceptions and ignorance after abstinence-only education. It’s worse than we feared, including widespread beliefs that birth control causes cancer.

Did you know adultery is still illegal in New Hampshire?

Unfortunate: vaginal gel does not block HIV.

Girl-bashing and its very real consequences.

Something fun indeed: Fleshbot’s top ten sex toys of 2009. I’m sure there are still some adult stores having xmas sales!

8/26 newspost

admin — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 23:17:36 +0000

Louisville has been honored as the most obscene city in the US, based on Google searches for George Carlin’s seven words you can’t say on TV. However, Fox 41 covered this story as if it had something to do with Louisville having lots of pedophiles (not that one can rely on anything related to Fox News for good information). Then ROCK heard about it and bemoaned the news—through commenting back and forth with the ROCK blogger, we’ve learned that they don’t believe the burden of proof is on them. Unsurprising, but, even though it is up to them to produce some actual evidence of their claims, PAPER’s site is filled with facts and information that validate sex-positive values that you can use to fight sex-negativity.

Also let it be noted that Louisville has earned this recognition for obscenity after ROCK has helped reduce the number of sex businesses in the area from over 200 to 67, which is an altogether inconvenient correlation for their cause.

There’s a new study out on why condoms break. Turns out it’s blunt puncture. Learn to put on a condom correctly here.

A San Francisco strip club has been shut down. Notice the interesting regulation mentioned: no adult businesses within 1000 feet of each other.

Porn’s last taboo: protected sex. Read this one all the way through.

A new study shows that access to emergency contraception has not increased abortion access.

Read about justice served, wherein a man was convicted for raping prostitutes. But pay attention to the horrifying reasoning of the defense—that is the kind of attitude that sex-negative, misogynist ideas about sex workers create.

The Lutherans are now gay-friendly!

Also, lots of links are to be added through the weekend all over the site, so please check back!

PAPER: because sex rights are civil rights. » safe sex

Some great news, some scary news.

8/26 newspost