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Anticipating Comedy Central’s Awkward Embrace of Teen Sex Ed

From a 19 year old fan on her sex education before finding The Midwest Teen Sex Show (who are now off in Los Angeles shooting a pilot for Comedy Central): “[sex education in middle and high school] consisted of little more than being shown pictures of STI-infected genitals. It taught me that I really, really [...]

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Porn, condoms, trouble

Miss Calico, a BDSM porn performer and sex worker advocate, points to a adult film director Ernest Greene’s reponse to the coverage of a reported HIV case among US porn performers. When it comes to porn, notions of privacy, confidentiality, and rights get secondary play over outdated and just flat wrong figures on how hugely [...]

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The inevitable #amazonfail infographic

(via National Coalition Against Censorship)

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Amazon coder: “someone internally” tagged thousands of titles “adult”

Frustrated with the misinformation swirling about hackers claiming responsbility for the removal of hundreds of sexuality & GLBT related titles from front page search results and the deletion of their sales rankings from individual book listing pages, and even more frustrated with Amazon’s lack of coherence on whether this was an internal error or an [...]

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Updates: Amazon removing queer, sexuality titles from front page search

More on Amazon’s ushering of queer & sexuality titles into a dirtier, ill-lit corner of their shelves: the LA Times blog asks why American Psycho remains indexed as any other book when Running with Scissors is buried, Edrants calls for a boycott, and Heather Corinna blogs at Amazon wondering why clearly marked explicit porn titles [...]

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Amazon removes sales rank from sexuality, queer titles

Rachel Kramer Bussel & Audacia Ray discovered this morning that Amazon no longer lists a sales rank for a number of their books. For a time today, Ray’s Naked on the Internet was displayed without cover photo or reviews. Heather Corinna notes that the feminist anthology on sexual assault, Yes Means Yes, has also been [...]

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Karen Rayne & Karen Kreps Let Teens Self-Savvy: An Interview on Sex Ed Online

Sex @ SXSW is in its own full-swing: Sexerati has landed, been conservative for no decent reason about giving out promotional buttons (ask me for one!), and has had a chance to even bump into some of these fine panelists. Here’s the last in this interview series, a two-for-one with the co-presenters of Sex Ed [...]

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Sexting Suicide? Don’t Do It.

Elizabeth Wood deftly shreds MSNBC for laying the blame for a teen woman’s suicide on “sexting”:
I’m furious about the way this young woman’s story is being reported. Jesse Logan killed herself last July not because of the “dangers of sexting” but because of the dangers of sex stigma and “slut shaming.” She had sent some [...]

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Rebecca Fox Will Not Just Be Quiet, Please: An Interview On Blogging as Bloodsport for Women

Rebecca Fox and Rachel Sklar are next in Sexerati’s Sex @ SXSWi series — for their panel, “Why Professional Blogging is Bloodsport for Women.” Rebecca is the Managing Editor at Mediabistro; Rachel was the Founding Editor at The Huffington Post’s Eat the Press, and is now with the media consulting firm Abrams Research.
First I got [...]

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Keely Kolmes Soothes Geek Hearts: An Interview on Mental Health 2.0

More Sex @ SXSWi, this time with Keely Kolmes, Psy.D. Keely is a clinical psychologist in private practice in San Francisco, who has worked part-time as a Staff Psychologist at Counseling and Psychological Services at Stanford University for the past five years. Keely says, “I have been living my life online since 1993. Prior to [...]

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