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We’re sorry to have been away so long, and we’re working on some ways to keep updates more frequent around here. [Stay tuned!] With that said, here’s the news on abortion, sex and politics, gay rights, sexual health, sex ed, porn, and more! Randall Terry endorsed Rand Paul, Kentucky’s Republican candidate for the Senate. Randall Terry [...] Alert: Kiana Firouz, 27 years old, is an outspoken Iranian LGBT rights activist, filmmaker, and actress. When clips of her video documentary work featuring the struggle and persecution of gays and lesbians in her country were acquired by Iranian intelligence, agents began to follow Firouz around Tehran, harassing and intimidating her. She fled for England where [...] And, happy birthday to the Pill! Here’s Loretta Lynn’s ode. Meanwhile… a prominent homophobe has been caught returning from a European vacation with a male sex worker, hired from RentBoy.com [link is to the site's statement on the outing]. The outed homophobe claims he was just trying to share the “good news of Jesus Christ” with [...] Happy post-Derby recuperation, and here’s a [very distilled] round-up from the interim. An economic analysis of the relationship between pre-marital sex and its destigmatization. Study from the National Campaignt to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy finds unprecedented vast ignorance about reproduction and contraception among American youth. Thanks, abstinence-only and sex-negativity! What an anti-teen sexting bill ought to look [...] Super Bowl is finally behind us, but here’s some analysis on the Tebow-Focus on the Family commercial: He’s My Timmy, who almost didn’t make it into this world… and from the link in the commercial, DON’T KILL YOUR BABY! Ah, yes, the crazy was waiting in the wings. By the way, don’t fall for the [...] First off: the Kentucky House has approved an In God We Trust plate. As you might recall, ROCK’s been at it to get a vanity IGWT plate for years—should this pass, it effectively kills ROCK’s fundraising strategy, and if it doesn’t pass, we’re spared license plate theocracy. A true win-win! ROCK also got more free press [...] Whew! We’ve seen the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the trial of anti-choice terrorist Scott Roeder, the Prop 8 trial, the vindication of Theatair X, and plenty more. Locally, an anti-choice rally was held downtown, Kentucky’s numbskulled state Senate passed a terrible bill requiring women to have ultrasounds before getting an abortion, and Louisvillians continued [...] This week the Kentucky Senate passed to the floor a bill that forces women to have an ultrasound before getting an abortion [the webpage has been glitchy, so you may have to refresh to get it to load correctly]. Kentucky law already requires counseling, in case you didn’t know. Find your representative’s contact info here [...] Here’s a cultural shift PAPER can get behind: an argument for premarital sex. It seems especially apropos considering some of the new fundie children’s devotionals. Evidence that abstinence-only doesn’t work continues to pile up—STIs are spreading at “soaring rates.” It’s an interesting week for porn. Sociological Images considers a new doc on the industry, and Jezebel’s take [...] |
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