- Us – this new generation of sex-positive sex educators – come from the perspective that sex is inherently positive, good for you (healthy), and we emphasize sexual pleasure (as opposed to traditional teaching, which is reproduction-focused). On the most-read at Wall Street Journal right now is a baby step in this direction. The article unfortunately does not clarify “sex” (do they mean penis-vagina or masturbation, or what?), but shines a light on the trouble with getting non-reproductive sex research done in this day and age: The Joy of Researching the Health Benefits of Sex (WSJ.com)
- Gay male manga (yaoi) titles are quietly being pulled from Amazon, but some people are noticing: Amazon removing some yaoi titles from Kindle store (Digital Manga Inc., thanks TeklaSchell!)
- Love this article! For the San Francisco girl, dating advice that includes screening his spell check abilities and gems like, “DO NOT talk about anal rape, or more precisely, do not talk about forcefully taking his ass with your array of strap-ons.” The Sexual Manifesto: Pseudo-Helpful Dating Tips For The 20-Something Woman (SFAppeal)
- Parents: don’t miss Bish Training’s great new post, Talking About Sex With Teens. (Bish Training, UK)
- “The HNSFE is a biologically-inspired, open systems, multitasking, multiprocessor, IEEE 1275 program which imitates many neural-cognitive operations of the human brain. For this experiment two artificial people were created: a male (mANNIE) and a female (fANNIE).” Result? They courted, they fucked – and both of the AI robots had orgasms: Human sexual function emulator – biomed 2011 (PubMed, via Vaughn Bell)
- Do herbs work for genital warts? Of course not! Still, it’s a racket: FDA: If STD Remedy Doesn’t Require A Prescription, It’s Bogus (NPR)
- His neighbor downloaded it, really. No, really: and the raid on an innocent man hopefully will make the cops learn more about IP addresses: After botched child porn raid, judge sees the light on IP addresses (Ars Technica)
Image: Anais Pouliot by Sean & Seng for Numéro #123 (yes, there is nudity)
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As a manga fan, I find them being pulled from Amazon a bit worrying. Although not specifically a fan of the yaoi genre (I’m not really the target demographic), it doesn’t warrant this kind of censorship; granted, some Japanese lolicon stuff is a bit questionable, but anything that gets published in English should be fair game. Amazon seem happy to sell anything with an ISBN number, so I hope they wouldn’t try that with the print versions – a shame that they see fit to quietly pull digital stuff and hope that nobody notices.
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