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Vanessa Hudgens nude controversy
By the standards of
the internet, the photograph is relatively tame: an 18-year-old
girl, standing in a bedroom in front
of deep red curtains, pulling back her hair
and smiling for the camera. She's stark naked,
of course. But this is a nude picture
like no other. It could, in fact, represent
one of the most expensive PR disasters
in media history.
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The
perils of 'designer vaginas'
We've become a society obsessed
with the quest for physical perfection. If you
don't like the nose (or ears or lips or breasts)
you were born with, there's a solution: find a
doctor and get it fixed. Clearly, the idea of
altering nature's plan for your appearance is
now widely accepted. But are there parts of your
body that should be off limits?
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Outrage
over sexy teacher ad
Even after all the publicity from
the Paris Hilton commercial a few years ago, the
burger chain has another racy ad getting more
attention. Hardee's Corporation is getting quite
a bit of attention for their latest ad campaign.
The new ad features a sexy teacher, making
provocative moves in front of the class while
two students rap to a song called "Flat Buns."
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Jessica
Biel's nude 'disgust'
Jessica Biel felt "disgusted"
with herself after posing topless for a magazine
photo shoot aged just 17. The 25-year-old
actress - who found fame in US TV show '7th
Heaven' when she was 14 - agreed to
controversially bare her breasts in Gear
magazine to shed her angelic image, but now
regrets her decision.
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Sex, lies, and the Republican Party
Sen. Larry Craig (R-Id.) decided to
resign after being caught in an undercover sting in a
Minnesota airport bathroom (a decision he later tried
reconsidering.) But if the GOP weren't so steadfast
about condemning homosexuality, Craig would have been
able to express his sexuality in an appropriate and
lawful way, instead of covertly propositioning a
plainclothes police officer.
19-9-2007
Female sex offenders reveal cultural double standard
For every teacher,
coach, priest, counselor or Scout leader who sexually
abuses children, there are thousands more who mentor,
nurture, even parent a child in a healthy way outside a
classroom or a church. How are parents to know the
difference? According to Dr. Leigh Baker, author of
"Protecting Your Children From Sexual Predators": A
predator - male or female - will "groom" the child,
lavishing him with time, attention and gifts.
19-9-2007
Men think sex, women try to bond
According to a report from the Nevada
Coalition against Sex Trafficking, most of the
prostitution in Nevada is taking place illegally in
Clark County on the streets, in the strip clubs and in
the city's hotel-casinos.
19-9-2007
Former prostitutes wage war against prostitution
A new non-profit group, made up of former
prostitutes, is going after the legal and illegal
prostitution industry in Nevada. The group, Nevada
Coalition Against Sex Trafficking, is headed up by
former Nye County Commissioner Candice Trummell, who
says a brothel owner tried to bribe her. Another member
of the group, Kathleen Mitchell, was a prostitute for 21
years. 19-9-2007
Illinois sex ed: Funding for lies, not information
The Illinois Campaign for Responsible Sex
Education, a coalition of more than 90 groups advocating
for comprehensive sex education, is calling for an end
to federal funding for abstinence-only programs.
19-9-2007
Firing over Web site of nude wife upheld
A police department had the right to fire
an officer for operating a Web site that featured
sexually explicit photos and videos of his wife, a
federal appeals court ruled last week.
19-9-2007
The myth, the math, the sex
Everyone knows men are promiscuous by
nature. It's part of the genetic strategy that evolved
to help men spread their genes far and wide. The
strategy is different for a woman, who has to go through
so much just to have a baby and then nurture it. She is
genetically programmed to want just one man who will
stick with her and help raise their children.
4-9-2007
Fighting a futile war on prostitution
The Chicago Police Department has a
weapon against prostitution: a website that regularly
posts the names, addresses and photos of those arrested
for trying to purchase such services. I've inspected the
site and can report that none of the alleged offenders
bears any resemblance to Richard Gere. But then, they
probably weren't expecting Julia Roberts.
4-9-2007
Candidates stop short on same-sex marriage
Melissa Etheridge confronted Hillary
Rodham Clinton about her husband's gay rights record,
accusing Bill Clinton of throwing gay and lesbian
supporters "under the bus" by pushing for the "Don't
Ask, Don't Tell" policy and the Defense of Marriage Act.
4-9-2007
Dave Navarro takes to porn
With
the Rock Star TV series going down in flames after a
dismal season last year (thanks T-Bonehead), Dave
Navarro had a bit of time on his hands and idle hands
are the devil's playthings so Navarro is moving into a
new entertainment medium: pornography.
4-9-2007
Gay porn company fighting back
Phillip Bleicher and his legal team waste
no time. They're already working on a lawsuit against
Miami Florida, where city officials ruled Bleicher must
relocate his porn palace.
4-9-2007
Locals grin and bear site hijacking by porn barons
First, porn barons hijacked a parish
website - now, they're touting sex on a dotcom aimed at
attracting tourists to the south-west of the country.
The latest casualty is the Beara Peninsula in west Cork.
4-9-2007
Defining a sex predator, for life
The
night Matthew Shettles graduated from high school, he
had sex with his girlfriend. He became a sex offender.
He was 18 and she was five weeks shy of 15, when a
three-year age difference would have made the act legal.
The girl confided in a counselor, who reported Shettles.
He was convicted of a misdemeanor and given three years'
probation, community service, a $1,600 fine and his name
on a registry of sex offenders for life.
30-7-2007
The politics of sex
Former
surgeon general Richard Carmona revealed that federal
policies concerning abstinence-only programs, stem-cell
research, emergency contraception, and abortion are
founded on dogma, not science. According to the good
doctor's testimony before the House Committee on
Oversight and Government Reform, politics, ideology, and
theology take priority over women's health in this
administration. 30-7-2007
Man on trial in 'sex tourism' case
A wealthy motel owner accused of sexually
abusing boys from a poor Eastern European village tossed
money around to ingratiate himself with people he met, a
federal prosecutor said in his opening statement at the
man's trial. 30-7-2007
Porn trailblazers guessed right - sex became big business
The death of sex
impresario Jim Mitchell following an apparent heart
attack last week was a major time-capsule moment. In a
city that has long fashioned itself as the country's
singular feel-good fiefdom of pleasure and personal
liberties, Jim and his late brother, Artie Mitchell,
earned the honorific of San Francisco's once-and-forever
Porn Kings. 30-7-2007
Court dismisses 'absurd' sex prosecution of pregnant 13-year-old girl
The Utah
Supreme Court on Tuesday threw out a sex-abuse finding
against a then-13-year-old Ogden girl who became
pregnant by her 12-year-old boyfriend, ruling
unanimously that treating her as both a victim and a
perpetrator for the same act had created an "absurd
result." 30-7-2007
Sex ring sold high school 'party girls' on Craigslist
They advertised
themselves on the Internet as Kandy, Deja and Carmen -
"party girls" available to men as a threesome. An FBI
investigation revealed that two of the women were high
school students and that their alleged ringleader was a
19-year-old Eagan woman working out of a Burnsville
motel. 30-7-2007
US clergy sex abuse payout approved in court
A record USD $660 million payout to
hundreds of people sexually abused by clergy from the
Roman Catholic Church in Los Angeles has been approved,
ending a bitter five-year legal battle.
30-7-2007
MySpace bars 29,000 sex offenders
The social networking website MySpace has
reported a four-fold increase in the number of convicted
sex offenders using its service. The company found more
than 29,000 convicted sex offenders in the United States
had profiles on MySpace - up from a figure of 7,000
given in May. 30-7-2007
Chicago: The most happy bordello
The
great cathouse era of Chicago was in the first decade or
so of the 20th century. This era and those cathouses
have now been described with scrupulous concern for
historical accuracy and in clear, lively prose by Karen
Abbott in "Sin in the Second City."
15-7-2007
Selling sex toys in America: No men allowed
Patty Brisben had never even seen a sex
toy before she started selling them from her home in
1983. She has now become a leading authority on
everything from G-spot vibrators to strawberry
lubricants. 15-7-2007
X-rated trade targeted by tax measure
Tax sex in California? A state lawmaker
is pushing to tax X-rated products, sex shows, and
explicit pay-per-view movies to help supplement public
services. Assemblyman Charles Calderon said he is not
attacking pornography, only trying to ease its impacts
on neighborhoods. 15-7-2007
Hate-crime trial has a weird twist
The
teen says that the woman got into their car, and
performed oral sex on him in the back seat while his
friend drove. They ended up near a lifeguard tower on
the island of Palm Beach after midnight. According to
the 17-year-old, the woman was on top of him when he saw
something he didn't expect under her bikini bottom.
15-7-2007
Fort Lauderdale mayor says $250K robotic toilet may put stop to 'illegal sex'
Fort
Lauderdale Mayor Jim Naugle has shifted his
attention to a robotic toilet, saying the invention
could have a special edge over a traditional restroom in
preventing the "homosexual activity" that he said
plagues other public restrooms.
15-7-2007
Prosecutor under fire in teen sex case
District Attorney David McDade has handed
out some 35 copies of a video of teenagers having sex at
a party. 15-7-2007
Porn star now seeks priesthood
Some people have their midlife crisis in
reverse, like Ronald Boyer, who for most of his
professional life has been better known as a star of
pornographic films, Rod Fontana.
15-7-2007
Gay porn star Kent North dies at 35
Adult video performer Kent North died in
London on July 4 of an apparent drug overdose, according
to Hot House Entertainment, where he was under an
exclusive contract. He was 35.
15-7-2007
Sex, or he's your ex
Excuse me
for being so bold, but I wanted to let readers know this
is not a column about and for women only. Sure, many
women feel that divorce is a particularly female rite of
passage. You don't see men writing books about their
personal journey following marital breakdown, do you?
1-7-2007
Screw you: Ode to prostitution
Prostitutes, hookers, callgirls,
streetwalkers, gigolos, johns, ranches, brothels,
madams, pimps. We've all heard the terminology. And we
all know that it's illegal (except in Nevada and Rhode
Island. Yes, Rhode Island. Apparently the act of
exchanging sex for money is not illegal, but street
solicitation and owning a brothel is). But honestly.why?
1-7-2007
Female war reporters hide sexual abuse to continue getting assignments
As more female
reporters cover conflict zones, they face the same
hurdles as their male counterparts and then some. In the
macho world of overseas journalism, those who face
sexual abuse often choose to say nothing at all.
1-7-2007
Sexiness seen as power in a 'look-at-me' culture
Porn used to be a video hidden in the
bottom drawer, or a magazine under the mattress. Today,
it's part of everyday life. Hugh Hefner's girlfriends
are TV's "girls next door." Porn stars have MySpace
pages and do voiceovers for video games. Pornography's
available in upgraded cable or satellite packages and
even easier to find on the Internet - more than a third
of the US Internet audience visited sites that fit in to
the online "adult" category in April.
1-7-2007
Pornographers taking their lumps on 'Net?
You might say the pornography industry
has been hoisted on its own ... well, let's not go
there. It's long been taken as a truism in the
technology world that when it comes to exploiting the
latest and greatest gadgets and services, purveyors of
pornography have been out there leading the pack,
particularly on the Internet.
1-7-2007
HIV-positive man gets life term for sex
A
Kansas City, Mo., man who spent five years in jail for
exposing sexual partners to HIV was sentenced recently
to life in prison for knowingly exposing another woman
to the virus. Sean L. Sykes, 33, was found guilty of
having unprotected sex with a St. Joseph woman without
telling her he was HIV-positive.
1-7-2007
Police: Pair used Web site for sex dates
Authorities say a Dallas couple used the
popular Web site Craigslist to arrange money-for-sex
dates for a 16-year-old girl. The girl told
investigators she was given rules: "not to talk to any
other guys, give all money to suspects and she couldn't
come home until she had money," court records state.
"Complainant estimates she made up to $1,000 a night."
1-7-2007
Sexual harassment & the Armed Forces
Sexual harassment is widespread in the
United States and abroad. Unfortunately, that is also
the case within the armed forces.
1-7-2007
Texas: Police raid lingerie shop
An
obscure law sends one local lingerie store clerk to
jail. And now she may forever have to register as a sex
offender. The lingerie store, Somethin' Sexy was raided
by police last week for violating Lubbock`s sexually
oriented business ordinance.
31-5-2007
Female airman punished for threesome
A Spangdahlem-based airman was sentenced
this week to four months confinement for her part in a
sexual act with two other airmen. Airman 1st Class
Ashley N. Rains pleaded guilty at a court-martial to two
indecent acts charges.
31-5-2007
DC madam: Pillow talk
The woman
nicknamed 'the DC Madam' speaks out-on why the press
hasn't published names of her clients, what she looked
for in an employee, and how the service she ran
empowered women. 31-5-2007
School district must release porn
Copyright laws don't prevent a school
district from turning over hundreds of adult images on a
teacher's school computer to a newspaper, the state
Supreme Court ruled this week.
31-5-2007
17 massage parlors closed by task force
A special San Francisco task force
designed to combat human trafficking has closed 17
massage parlors suspected of forcing immigrant Asian
women into sex work. 31-5-2007
Abu Ghraib contractor sentenced for child porn
A
US contractor who worked at the notorious Abu Ghraib
prison in Baghdad was sentenced to more than
three years in prison Friday for possessing child pornography
that he obtained using the prison's computer network.
31-5-2007
COMMENTARY
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