Category Archives: Strange Bedfellows

“A Place For…” Friends? Predators? Or Moral Panics

Because sex perverts just aren’t clever enough to create a social networking profile under an assumed name, right? Again MySpace is being accused of not doing enough to protect “the children,” with seven US attorneys general, in North Carolina, Connecticut, Idaho, Mississippi, New Hampshire, Ohio and Pennsylvania, seeking to force Mr. Murdoch’s Neighborhood [...]

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Johns Gone Wild: A Full, Unrushed Month’s Phone Records with Complete Release

There’s all kinds of fancy-pants sidestepping in the business of selling sex, as this bit in the Hartford Courant, where reporters called up an escort service to ask what they could get, reveals quite plainly:
“Service,” she said, would cost $200 an hour.
What do you get for that?
“It’s full service,” she said.
Can you say specifically [...]

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Johns Gone Wild: The DC Madam’s Gift to Sexual Health

The cats and all their dirty politics and money are scrambling out of the bag after this weekend, with the Big Reveal of the alleged “D.C. Madam” — alleged, in that, on an unstated sex industry technicality, one can only be thought of as a madam if one is involved in prostitution, and we’re [...]

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Lazysexweb: What Is The History of NSFW?

Apropos of Susie Bright’s questioning of the overuse of NSFW…
NSFW is unmandated, unlegislated censorship — there’s no ballot to punch, no senator to harangue.
The great majority of NSFW warnings are the result of unconscious class bias, with the conceit of American ethnocentrism. It’s made a mockery of out of journalism and the First Amendment.
NSFW and [...]

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Stephen Colbert vs. Female Chauvinist Pigs

How, how, how did I miss Ariel Levy on The Colbert Report?
(That’s right — by just getting my teevee from the Internet.)

Remember, kids: the reason that women are losing the war on sex? Because strippers hate our freedom.
(Video from Colbert OnDemand; more: nofactzone.net, ColbertNation)

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Happy Birthday, Roe v. Wade (and Me)

Today’s my birthday, too. I’m five years Roe v. Wade’s junior, and, in a moment of teenage brazen behavior, I informed my mother that this must have meant that I was a wanted child. My mother, a reasonably devout Catholic, was understandably taken way, way aback.
My mother didn’t directly raise me [...]

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Because We All Know ‘Sex Offenders’ Only Get One Username

In a truly ‘bad design for sex’ story out of Virginia, a 41-member task force investigating child pornography has released its findings and suggestions for how to combat “the dangers of the Internet.” Virginia State Attorney General Bob McDonnell, speaking with the usual smarts of politicians trying to make sense of the… what did [...]

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Steve Jobs Hates Sex People?

iBuzz, the makers of an iPod vibrator attachment, have been all over the media lately, first trying to go viral with their video demo (you know, in time for the holidays), and now, you can only picture the happy dances going down at the their (presumably, from the URL) UK HQ, as they join the [...]

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Saturday Afternoon Video: Inside a Purity Ball

Relax into the pillows, spoon a bit longer, or better yet, just flip your lover and have some extramarital sex in jubilant defiance of all that is the epitome of not-smart sex (which doesn’t keep these jokers from getting federal funding, of course), ‘The Purity Ball.’

(via ana voog, via Feministing)

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Election Day Postgame: Vote Your Local Leatherman and Escort

I’m not sure I was actually breaking the law by taking this photo at the polling station, but as the count is in, why not? It’s not every day one gets to cast one’s ballot for an out supporter of the Leatherman’s community. Who won with 87% of the vote in his race [...]

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