The journal Sexual and Relationship Therapy has published a statement announcing that it will no longer accept articles that utilize unscientific terms like “sex addiction” or “porn addiction,” and will only allow “compulsive sexual behavior” under strictly limited conditions. This announcement is buttressed by a detailed historical overview of these concepts by a distinguished international team of […]
No Nut November
No Nut November (#NNN) is a trending internet challenge in which participants attempt to abstain from ejaculation and orgasm by not masturbating and/or not engaging in partnered sex for the entirety of the month. While studies have elucidated physical and psychological health benefits of masturbation/orgasm as well as abstinence from them, the effects of temporary […]
Sex Researchers Create Their Own Porn
A research project from Portugal has developed three standardized pornographic film clips meant for use in testing heterosexual male subjects’ ability to recognize and appropriately respond to a woman’s cues expressing consent or non-consent. Each 90-second film clip depicted the face of the same actress experiencing intercourse with an off-camera male: in one she showed […]
Uganda Bill Criminalizes Identifying as LGBTQ+
Uganda, already one of the world’s harshest anti-gay regimes, is introducing a new bill which would impose up to 10 years in prison for simply identifying as LGBTQ. In 2023 the Ugandan president, Yoweri Museveni, signed into law the “Anti-Homosexuality Act” which brings the death penalty to anyone involved in “aggravated homosexuality”. Prior to that, […]
Most US Adults Have Engaged in Rough Sex
Noted sexologist Debby Herbenick is the lead-author on an article looking at a representative survey of over 9000 US adults which reveals that the majority of both males and females have at some point in their lives engaged in “rough sex” behaviors with a partner, defined as hair pulling, biting, spanking, slapping, punching, choking, smothering, […]
Supreme Court Continues to Weigh In On Sex and Gender
On November 10 the Supreme Court kiboshed an opportunity to overturn the constitutional right to same-sex marriage by denying an appeal from Kim Davis. Davis, if you recall, is that troll of a county clerk from Kentucky who has been married four times and who refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples in 2015 […]
How the Anti-Trafficking Industry Unites Right and Left
Investigative reporter Michael Tracey looks at the anti-trafficking industry. In the wake of the moral panic and conspiracy theories surrounding the late financier Jeffrey Epstein, about whom much still remains unknown, politicians on both the right and left as well as NGOs have exploited the ever-expanding concept of “sex trafficking” to characterize virtually all commercial […]
Controversial Sex Worker Statue Restored
When originally erected on a street corner in Sydney’s red-light district of Darlinghurst in 1995, the statue of “Joy” provoked local controversy and was subject to vandalism, including a hammer attack by an outraged mother who thought it looked like her daughter. It was removed two years later, but has now been reproduced in more […]
Pursuing the “Goonstate”
“Gooning” has become a popular trend especially among Gen Z males who came of age during the COVID isolation. For those who have never heard of it, this phenomenon entails hours of uninterrupted solo masturbation while watching heterosexual porn, sometimes on multiple screens, usually accompanied by hard-pounding techno music, and always with the goal of […]
EU LGBTQ Legislative Trends
Despite the Netherlands electing its first openly gay prime minister (and its youngest yet) and the Church of Norway providing an apology for the harm and pain its caused LGBTQ+ folks in its history, not all of Europe is on the same page when it comes to protecting LGBTQ+ rights and freedoms. In late September […]