Image by Andrew Eccles via Dunstan Orchard. This month’s cover (and cover story) of Psychology Today is about “Twisted(?)” taboos — and before I show you the textual perversity circa 1996 between their covers, allow me to point you to Midori‘s fabulous commentary on the outfit and cover model’s styling. Besides the fact that the…
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California porn tax was fail!
Image by the wonderful elaisted. Glad to see it fail and sink (“movies, books and magazines” — O’rly!) , and for all the reasons we suspected, snip from California’s 25% Porn Tax Defeated: SACRAMENTO — Assembly Bill 2914, which would have imposed a 25 percent excise tax on adult products and productions, has died in…
Intense case: Red Rose Stories sentenced for obscene fiction
The material is abhorrent; yet the case brings up serious questions about the possibility of facing prison in this country for writing fiction. On the radar from PC World: A Pennsylvania woman has been sentenced to five years of probation, including six months of home detention, and forfeiture of her computer after pleading guilty Thursday…
The Parents Television Council wants more hot sex on TV, and so do I
Image via grigiomedio. Many mainstream interweb outlets are buzzing this week about the Parents Television Council’s new “report” (should always be in quotes when we talk about those pervs), called Happily Never After. In it, they bemoan, or maybe they just moan longingly, about how sex on TV is all boring and stuff when it’s…
The ecosexual primer
Image of cute ecosexual girls by the wonderful Demetrius Gonzalez. This week’s Chronicle column was all about greener sex — and whether a person who drives a Prius is hot or not. Are they? Meanwhile, I got all the good jokes in the comments: “Priapus” and “Pious” were the best. It was quite amusing to…
Craigslist troll Jason Fortuny caught, sued, cites DMCA abuse
Remember griefer extraordinaire Jason Fortuny‘s “The Craigslist Experiment“? I’ve cited it more than once in my online privacy talks (Google Tech talk video). Reader El D just wrote me saying, Though Sunday’s New York Times dubbed him a spokesperson for internet trolls, Jason Fortuny’s just been sued in federal court. Fortuny re-published over 180 responses…
Big kisses to Auntie Cecilia
Just a quick shout-out and smooches to Auntie Cece (Cecilia Chung) who is sweltering in Mexico City right now preparing to speak at the 2008 International AIDS Conference (see also: live webcasts + conference coverage). Go girl! It’s really awful that the conference opens just as we’ve discovered that the CDC has been underreporting HIV/AIDS…
DC circuit rules that sexual relations constitutes a “major life activity”
Image via macwagen. Mind you, that’s “sexual relations” and not just “reproduction” as affirming sexuality as a human right. I’d like to hear more from my legal contacts on this one, but it seems to me like a big step in the right direction. Dear friend and colleague Cory Silverberg writes, For many years the…
China’s Olympic-sized sex and gender problems
Image via sumimazen1973. I actually had this much sexier ‘unbearable lightness of being Chinese‘ Tao Li Jing photo to go with this post about my SF Chronicle column (on SF Gate), but given that the original way female “gender suspects” were rounded up and examined in 1968, this image seemed more appropriate. And they’re cute…
Oakland teen draws fire at NPR for saying straight teen barebacking is the ‘new engagement ring’
Image of a different kind of bare back by spiritus.molenuex. Last thursday on NPR an Oakland (CA) teen talked about what’s up with his generation’s take on sex and condoms(MP3 link, three minute segment), saying that when a teen couple decides to go bareback — condomless — it is the serious sign of commitment for…