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Church files on abuse forced open
The church readily admitted that he was sexually abused during his first confession. They offered him an in-person apology from the bishop and more than six times his annual salary in the hopes of putting a quick, quiet end to yet another ugly incident involving a priest.
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Prostitution: A 'victimless crime'?
Viewing prostitution as a genuine "choice" for women, such as secretarial work or waitressing, diminishes the possibility of getting women out and improving their lives. For the vast majority of prostituted women, prostitution is the experience of being hunted, assaulted and battered.
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Same-sex marriage and political savvy
Anyone wondering why Republicans such as Jon Huntsman and Rob Portman are suddenly announcing their support for gay marriage (and why the anti-gay marriage forum at the Conservative Political Action Convention last week was empty while the pro-marriage forum was packed) should look at the polls.
22-3-2013
Shutting down child exploitation
The spread of child pornography and exploitive content online has exploded in recent years, as has the role of technology in the prostitution of children. Victims are getting younger and the crimes are more horrific than any of us would like to believe is possible.
18-3-2013
Stay grounded: No sex in space
Experiments on plants show changes in gravity damages cells - and could lead to life-threatening illnesses. Rumours have abounded for over a decade astronauts have already done the deed although NASA and the Russian government has denied these.
18-3-2013
Man prostituting Korean women in US gets jail, fines
A Milton, Washington man who owned a Korean bar where women trafficked from Korea were promoted for prostitution was sentenced last week to 72 months in prison and five years of supervised release, announced US Attorney Jenny A. Durkan. Chang Young Kim, 59, was also ordered to pay $112,050 in restitution and over $1.6 million in back taxes and penalties to the Internal Revenue Service
18-3-2013
Internet porn means birds 'n' bees talk comes earlier
A father recently sat down to have "the talk" with his 10-year-old son. After he got through the basics on the birds and the bees, the boy asked, "Why do men wear masks when they're having sex?" Though the father said he had parental controls engaged on his iPad, the son managed to find a fetish site depicting men in masks.
18-3-2013
Sex ed: The importance of learning about sexual orientation and gender identity
The school I attended had student groups such as the Red Ribbon Club (whose purpose was to spread HIV/AIDS awareness), the Black History Club, the Make a Wish Foundation club and more. There were students from a myriad of ethnic and religious backgrounds and with a variety of different sexual orientations and gender identities.
6-3-2013
Bizarre sex games in today's Army training
It’s a case of soldiers gone wild: An eyewitness tells WND a US Army installation in Hawaii held a Valentine’s Day official “training” event in which male and female soldiers were offered prizes in a race to put condoms on sex toys.
6-3-2013
Which religions have the most premarital sex?
Water flows downhill. Sex happens. But a recent study in the American Sociological Review reveals that even in this globalized, secular age, the religion you belong to still has major effects on how likely you are to have had sex with someone before marriage.
6-3-2013
Thousands of California sex offenders disable GPS monitors
Several thousand paroled sex criminals in California are wanted for ditching or disabling their GPS tracking devices, a consequence of a federal court order to ease prison overcrowding, the Los Angeles Times reported Monday. The paper said some parolees have been charged with new sex crimes, kidnapping or attempted manslaughter.
6-3-2013
The feminist pornographer
There was a time, not too long ago, when the idea of making porn for women was unthinkable. It was “completely unheard of,” writes director Candida Royalle in the new anthology “The Feminist Porn Book: The Politics of Producing Pleasure.” She founded Femme Productions in 1984, but when she went looking for distributors for her “female-oriented” films, she was patted on the head and told, “This is a boy’s club.”
2-3-2013
Obama weighs in on same-sex marriage
In a bold political and legal move, the Obama administration formally expressed its support for same-sex marriage in California, setting up a high stakes political and constitutional showdown at the U.S. Supreme Court over a fast-evolving and contentious issue.
2-3-2013
Christian school fires pregnant
woman over premarital sex
In October, Teri James says her supervisor at San Diego Christian College called her to her office and got straight to the point: Was James pregnant? Quite amazingly, the school then offered the unwed man who got the woman pregnant the same job as her replacement.
2-3-2013
Gynecologist hid camera inside pen during exams
A Johns Hopkins Hospital gynecologist accused of secretly videotaping patients wore a pen around his neck that may have been used to conceal a camera, according to the employee who reported the doctor.
2-3-2013
Stories of a Craigslist underwear vendor
According to her website, Miss Tina is twenty-three years old and lives in Austin, where she works as a cocktail server at a club. She also sells her panties in her spare time. We spoke to Tina about the ins and outs of the online panty-vending business.
21-2-2013
Saudi man convicted of sex assault in '06 may be allowed to leave US
A Saudi linguist convicted of sexually assaulting a housekeeper and keeping her a virtual slave for four years in Colorado has cleared initial administrative hurdles to be transferred to Saudi Arabia under a US treaty, angering prosecutors who put him in prison.
21-2-2013
The early years: Kinky online torture sex goes awry
Bob Glass, aka "Slowhand," was found guilty of killing his Internet lover. "I never wanted to kill her but she ended up dead," he said. In 1996, the olden days of online hookups, Sharon Lopatka found the man of her dreams on the Internet.
21-2-2013
UN body says US lax on catholic sex abuse cases
A UN committee has accused US legal authorities of failing to fully pursue cases of child sex abuse in religious groups, an issue especially troubling the Roman Catholic Church. The Committee on the Rights of the Child wrote this month that it was "deeply concerned" to find widespread sexual abuse by clerics and staff of religious institutions and "a lack of measures ... to properly investigate cases and prosecute them".
21-2-2013
Brown University’s student health plan will cover sex changes
Beginning in August, Brown’s student health insurance plan will pay for more than a dozen different sexual reassignment surgery procedures, including scrotoplasty, labiaplasty, clitoroplasty and placement of testicular prostheses, reports The Brown Daily Herald. The plan as currently configured will cover only students, not staff.
21-2-2013
Pentagon extends benefits to same-sex couples
US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta said the decision stemmed from the repeal of a ban on openly gay recruits. The Pentagon has officially extended some military benefits to same-sex partners, but said provisions such as medical coverage would not be offered to gay troops' spouses due to legal barriers.
21-2-2013
A spouse is a spouse
A little more than two years ago, the Illinois General Assembly took a carefully measured step toward marriage equality, the full legal recognition of committed partnerships, regardless of the parties' sexual orientation. With that vote in December 2010, Illinois became the sixth state to recognize civil unions, extending many of the rights and benefits of marriage to same-sex couples.
21-2-2013
Pubic danger: Waxing our way to the ER
Just in case you still haven’t read your December issue of Urology, here’s the best piece of advice you’ll get today: Don’t drink and shave your pubes. You’re welcome. A new study from the University of California-San Diego reveals that “Emergency room visits due to pubic hair grooming mishaps,” including oh my God no no noooo “lacerations."
11-2-2013
Gay marriage: Tax man comes calling
For Colette Hayward and Margaret Selby, the problem is this: Maryland recognizes their 2009 marriage, but the federal government does not. The ramifications are maddeningly complex, no more so than when they deal with the Internal Revenue Service. Two years after taking legal action to assert their rights as a married couple, they are paying a price when they pay their taxes.
11-2-2013
I fooled around with the rabbi
'Too much teeth'. This is the phrase that sears through me as I stare at the rabbi who’s been hired to preside over my cousin’s small, graveside funeral. Minus the gray hair, he looks exactly the same as he did two decades ago, when he wasn’t a rabbi and we lay together partially clothed one late summer night in a neighborhood playground that I had loved as a child.
11-2-2013
Illinois starts push to legalize
same-sex marriage by Valentine's Day
Democratic lawmakers began a drive to legalize same-sex marriage in Illinois by Valentine's Day, but the fate of the effort is in doubt because the state faces a financial crisis that could overshadow other issues. A committee of the state Senate on Tuesday approved a measure to legalize same-sex marriage by a 9 to 5 vote with Democrats in favor and Republicans opposed, paving the way for a possible vote in the full upper chamber next week.
8-2-2013
Trial puts Mormon sex rules in spotlight
The murder trial of Jodi Arias has been filled with salacious details of phone sex, graphic text messages, and an erotic sexual relationship between her and her devout Mormon ex-boyfriend, Travis Alexander. Arias, 32, converted to Mormonism when she began to date Alexander, then 29, in 2006. Though they were both outwardly
devout, they immediately developed a sexual relationship.
8-2-2013
With sex ed, contraception – and
Plan B – NYC teen pregnancy rate drops
The teen pregnancy rate among New York City’s public high school students dropped 27% over a decade, new city data shows. Among 1,000 girls aged 15 to 19, 73 became pregnant in 2010. That’s down from 99 of 1,000 girls who became pregnant in 2001.
8-2-2013
Teen sex videos don’t warrant criminal
charges, defense attorneys say
Students from West Springfield High School who have been charged with child pornography acted inappropriately by darting into rooms at parties and using cellphones to take shaky videos of teens engaged in consensual sex acts, one of the boys’ attorneys said Tuesday.
8-2-2013
Strippers can collect unemployment,
Kansas Supreme Court rules
The Kansas Supreme Court ruled that exotic dancers at a strip club have the right to collect unemployment insurance as employees and not independent contractors. In 2005, a dancer at Club Orleans in Topeka filed an unemployment claim. The dancers earn money through tips, while the club maintains that it is offering “rental space” for them to perform.
8-2-2013
Did a baker break the law when he denied service to same-sex couple?
A Gresham baker is the subject of a state investigation after he refused to make a wedding cake for a same-sex couple. Did Sweet Cakes owner Aaron Klein violate the law when he told the couple that he couldn’t sell them a cake because “they were abominations to the Lord?”
8-2-2013
My ex posted "revenge porn" pics of me
"Time heals." "Forgive and forget." "Move on." Those are the breakup rules, right? But it might be time to come up with some new advice — advice that addresses more permanent damage. I couldn't tell myself any of those things when I broke up with my ex-boyfriend, because I once made a mistake when I was drunk. And that mistake ended up on the internet.
31-1-2013
23 women file class-action lawsuit against revenge porn site
In what is likely the first case of its kind, 23 women have joined a class-action lawsuit against the “revenge porn” website Texxxan.com. Not sure what revenge porn is? Congratulations, you’re a good person.
31-1-2013
Piracy battle of the porn business
At the Adult Entertainment Expo held last weekend at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, Media talked to adult performers, agents, consumers, directors, producers, cam girls, veterans, and newcomers about the state of the adult movie industry.
31-1-2013
Rise of 'romance porn' is transforming erotic movies with 'soft lovemaking'
A stripper-turned-film maker is putting a softer spin on typical pornography with a new genre of Edwardian-style romance porn - and it seems women are flocking to watch. Nica Noelle, who uses seductive glances, story-lines of repressed passions, and softer shots of lovemaking, is being credited with turning 'typical porn into pure art.'
31-1-2013
Public university plans event to help female students achieve orgasm
The University of Minnesota is set to hold an event this spring designed to help its female undergraduate students achieve more and greater orgasms. A promotional poster for the event says it is all about "sexuality and pleasure."
31-1-2013
Wedding vendors look to cash in on same-sex marriage
When Maryland merchants talk about the recent legalization of same-sex marriage, they sometimes talk of broad, lofty themes: Equality. Justice. Civil rights. But there's another practical concept at work: Dollar signs.
31-1-2013
Boy Scouts reconsidering stance on gay members
The Boy Scout of America is considering ending its longstanding national membership restrictions based on sexual orientation. Under the change now being discussed, the different religious and civic groups that sponsor Scout units would be able to decide for themselves how to address the issue — either maintaining an exclusion of gays or opening up their membership.
31-1-2013
DC tourism bureau wants to sex up Washington
Gay couples travel more often than the average visitor, and are more likely to be well-heeled. For years, the DC tourism bureau has emphasized the staple attractions of the city, most of them political, and some of them rather dry. For Valentine's Day in recent years, the bureau urged visitors to take part in a series of cutesy "date nights" similar to the First Couple's dating tradition.
31-1-2013
Sex (ratios) and the single girl
Far from a dating paradise, a gender gap can prove dangerous for women in cities and rural areas around the world. Amid all of the current Internet chatter about the perils of being a single woman, a recent piece in the New York Times shines a light on a different, more sinister, hazard.
23-1-2013
Sugar daddy site: Better than sex work
Ever wondered which is more lucrative, being a prostitute or a sugar baby? Well, SeekingArrangement.com, the dating site for those seeking “Mutually Beneficial Relationships®,” has decided to answer that question — in a completely scientific and unbiased way, I’m sure.
23-1-2013
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