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Thomas Roche

China’s Sex Toy “Boom”

9 July 2011
Sifting the imagined facts from the meaningless ones in the lengthy China Daily story "A Kiss of Life For Sex Toys" is even more work than doing that same task with articles about sex in the mainstream western media. The article in the state-run newspaper almost completely ignores China's importance as […]
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Blowjobs, Bollywood, “Delhi Belly” and India’s Post-Sex Nation: Is Dirty Talk the New Wet Sari?

7 July 2011
If you're familiar at all with Bollywood films, you may already know the three most important things about them. First, if someone starts singing, expect them to take an inexplicable dancing tour through world history during the upcoming number, featuring lots of guys with mustaches. Second, while you shouldn't expect […]
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Secretary Clinton’s Sex-Worker-Positive Comment Causes Conservative Spit-Takes

1 July 2011
Hillary Clinton needs to be applauded -- and loud. During a speech at an event sponsored by the State Department and an LGBT employee group, she said meeting with and talking to sex workers was important as part of the global struggle to advance LGBT rights. But at Free Republic.com, "America's […]
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PTSD, BDSM, and Mac McClelland’s “Violent Sex” (At Gunpoint) Memoir

28 June 2011
A journalist named Mac McClelland covers human rights issues and politics for Mother Jones and other publications. I decided she's extra cool when I saw her phenomenally ballsy, if problematic, piece about wanting to get fucked at gunpoint. That's a gross oversimplification of what the article is about; basically, it's about […]
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Bestiality Dustup in Ohio Legislature: Animal Welfare Ignored

24 June 2011
Ohio State Representative Jay Goyal has introduced legislation that would make sex with animals a felony in Ohio, the state that tried to throw teens in Juvie for "sexting." Goyal's outrage stems from a May case in which a 31-year-old Ohio man named Peter Bower was alleged […]
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Anthony Weiner and “Sex Addiction”

19 June 2011
Even if Psychology Today has repeatedly hurt its credibility with such debacles as Satoshi Kanazawa's phenomenally racist (and boneheaded) assertions, I still appreciate many of PT's bloggers. I particularly like addiction specialist Stanton Peele -- who, incidentally, tore into Kanazawa hammer and tongs before anyone else had shown up at […]
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Already-Shipped New Playboy to Have “Mrs. Hugh Hefner” Crystal Harris On the Cover?

15 June 2011
It's the kind of sleaze that makes me want to scrape my flesh with a strigil. And it looks like it may lead to the most collectible issue of Playboy in decades, which could conceivably hit the stands with the ex-future-ex-Mrs. Hugh Hefner on the cover with, erroneously, one of […]
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EXCLUSIVE Interview: Abducted Queer Teen Xandir to Appear in San Francisco Today

8 June 2011
Yesterday in Gay Teen Girl Abducted and Tortured at For-Profit American “Re-Education” School(s), we related the account, first posted to Reddit, of Xandir, whose story includes accounts of physical and verbal abuse, dishonesty on the part of staff, and a blatant program of brainwashing. Xandir will now be coming out about […]
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Gay Teen Girl Abducted and Tortured at For-Profit American “Re-Education” School(s)

6 June 2011
In a post that's (hopefully) due to hit the mainstream press and cause public outrage, Reddit user Pixel8 posted the horrifying first-person story of a teenager named Xandir who was forcibly abducted from her home, publicly restrained, and transported to […]
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Bling For Your Thing: Is Pejazzling a Pro-Vajazzling PR Hoax?

26 May 2011
Often I see sex-related news stories, and I think: "There's absolutely no way I would ever write about that, because it's stupid." As I've been informed by erotica writer Nikki Magennis, that's because I keep reading the Daily Mail. The Daily Mail does indeed seem to be decidedly Foxy -- it […]
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OkCupid, Rough Sex Dating Data and Psychology Today’s Problem: Dr. Satoshi Kanazawa

24 May 2011
The image above is not, as you might be hoping, a tag cloud indicating what you can expect in the men's room vs. the ladies' room of your local dive bar. On the contrary, it's part of a fresh crunch of the famous/infamous OkCupid data about online dating, as detailed […]
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Gail Dines, SlutWalk, Saudi Arabia and The Place of Porn in a “Just Society”

22 May 2011
UPDATE: See the note at the bottom about porn's legal status in Australia. As Violet mentioned in a Nibble earlier this week, anti-porn crusader Gail Dines' May 18 piece in the Sydney Morning Herald got negative responses not just from many of our fellow sex-positive writers but from commenters at the […]
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Uganda’s LGBT Activists Get a Temporary Victory

16 May 2011
The reprehensible "anti-gay" bill in Uganda has been dealt a blow by that country's brave LGBT activists and the world human rights community. In a nation where homosexuality was already illegal, and punishable by 14 years in prison, this law would have made things even worse, establishing the death penalty, […]
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Parents Challenge California School District’s Abstinence-Only Insanity

15 May 2011
In the central California town of Clovis, near Fresno, a group of parents believes the school district's seventh-grade sex-ed curriculum "illegally emphasizes abstinence and fails to provide accurate medical information." They've taken their complaint to the California Department of Education. The Department forced school districts in Selma (also in Fresno […]
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New Bestiality Law: Did Florida Just Ban Sex?

12 May 2011
It's one of the many strange things about sex and the law in the United States that sex between humans and non-human animals isn't illegal everywhere. It's specifically illegal in 32 states, of which 16 make it a felony; the other 18 don't have laws against it. Some animal welfare advocates […]
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Sock Puppets, Jack Puppets, and Spotting Sexual Predators

22 April 2011
Sock puppets are a huge annoyance to anyone who runs a forum or manages comments on any public site that allows them. A sock puppet or "sock" is an account or username created to obscure the identity of its user, so that person can comment on threads or edit materials […]
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Ian Kerner’s SADD Anti-Porn Logic

12 April 2011
A while back, CNN's resident anti-porn commando Ian Kerner came up with the term SADD, or Sexual Attention Deficit Disorder, to describe what happens when a guy watches too much internet porn and then doesn't care whether or not his lady-friend gets the attention she deserves. Though Kerner has […]
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ZOMFG!!! Did the Czechs Discover the World’s First Cavegay and/or Cavetranny?

7 April 2011
The Czechs just discovered the world's first gay caveman. Problem? He's probably not gay and definitely not a caveman. She may not even be much of a tranny. The Telegraph and The Daily Mail both reported with utter credulity the claim of Czech archaeologists that a male skeleton has been found buried […]
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Random Hotties With Animals

5 April 2011
I submit that in every unfunny, sex-negative rendition of the broke-ass "Porn For Women" joke, there's a Sexy Geek List or a Hot Guys Reading Books struggling to be born in the flames of a super-dirty all-girl threesome between the engorged clitoris, the frontal lobe and the limbic system. Sure, some […]
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Restless Legs Syndrome and Masturbation

3 April 2011
This past week, New Scientist reported that Restless Legs Syndrome may be improved by masturbation. But the science NS reports on is neither science nor new. That puts me in the truly bizarre position of having to hold down the anti-masturbation side of this debate -- which, if you know […]
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