Category Archives: Strange Bedfellows

Voters unbound

via Babeland

Declare Yourself aims to mobilize “every 18 year old” to get out and vote. The age of consent for bondage isn’t so clear.

HOW NOT TO: Researcher Arrested for Hiring Sex Worker for STI Study

He was approved to use human subjects in his research, which is precisely what UMass Medical School’s Dr. Peter A. Rice claims to have been doing when he was arrested for soliciting an undercover police officer in Worcester, MA:
The author of more than 145 professional publications in the area of infectious and sexually transmitted diseases, [...]

“As Long As We Raise Our Eleven Children to be Strong, Pro-Life Citizens…”

Veracfier posts its first On The Ground report from the Values Voters Summit, protecting women from abortion and Americans from The Gay Blood and The Gay Media one voter eleven newly born assumed-to-be pro-life future baby voters at a time.

Update: The New York Times was there, too. But which am I going to spend [...]

Blue Monday: If Sex Educators Could Make a Living Wage, Would We Sue to Protect Our Brand?

In the “Power, Corruption, and Lies” Department: on Monday, October 22, San Francisco based sex educator & author Violet Blue filed suit against porn star Violet Blue, seeking damages for violation of the the trademark “Violet Blue”, filed in March 2007, and to block the porn star from doing business as Violet Blue Inc.
As reported [...]

Through a Newsroom Sordidly: The NYTimes Child Porn Hoax, Revisited

Remember Justin Berry? Sexerati first covered the former teen webcam operator back in December 2005, when then-New York Times reporter Kurt Eichenwald published his deeply disturbing feature, “Through His Webcam, a Boy joins a sordid online world” — disturbing, as a portrait of sexual exploitation, carried out in the now forever-intertwined worlds of amateur [...]

No, Really, There is a Radical Homosexual Agenda

Queers take to the streets for the right to free assembly in New York City, where city officials have proposed that no group of fifty or more may gather without a permit. Last weekend, the Radical Homosexual Agenda organized a parade without a permit in the name of queer mutiny and the Bill of [...]

More Panic than Evidence When it Comes to Sex Trafficking in the US

Though the US government spent over $28.5 million fighting trafficking within the United States in 2006 alone, very few victims of sex trafficking have been assisted with this money, says a blistering Washington Post feature on human trafficking. Far fewer sex trafficking victims, or trafficked persons, have been found than government estimates, and the [...]

Hot Married (?) Senatorial Action

The American Sexuality Blog points to this week’s Roll Call’s turn at queer public sex nonfiction smut:
“At 1216 hours, Craig tapped his right foot. I recognized this as a signal used by persons wishing to engage in lewd conduct. Craig tapped his toes several times and moves his foot closer to my foot. I moved [...]

Bad Medicine, Good Lubrication: The Times Comes Out Against Bush’s Nominee w/ Smart Sex Science

Surprise, Bush is considering appointing another Christian with a dubious understanding of what constitutes public health to the position of Surgeon General. Leave it to the New York Times to skewer nominee Dr. James Holsinger’s bad science, with grace & smarts:
Titled “Pathophysiology of Male Homosexuality,” the paper purported to be a scientific and medical [...]

The Big (Corrupt) Business of Abstinence-Only Education

Not only is abstinence-only sex “education” (where’s the education, exactly?) without evidence in reducing STI’s and unwanted pregnancies, now its crooked money trail is starting to unravel, as well.
Out in this week’s Nation, The Abstinence Gluttons tracks the neoconservative anti-abortion, anti-comprehensive sex education agenda, and reveals it for the cashgrab that it is. [...]