Despite having lost 3.6 million members over the past two decades, the Southern Baptist Convention is both the world’s largest Baptist and Protestant organization, as well as the second-largest Christian body in the United States. Thus it matters that within their list of resolutions that they recently passed at their 2025 annual meeting is one […]
Flipping the bird to societal relational scripts
According to a new study co-conducted by the dating app Feeld and sex educator Ruby Rare, younger generations are increasingly rejecting societal norms around relationships and intimacy. Relationship anarchy, a philosophical approach that aims to avoid hierarchies and other traditional conventions that have cemented themselves to mainstream relational ethics, is on the rise among millennials and Gen […]
The “Nordic Model” is spreading to Scotland and sex workers are concerned
In Scotland it is currently legal to pay for sex, although related activities like running a brothel and loitering in public are in fact illegal. The Nordic model, as enacted in countries such as Sweden, Norway, and Iceland, aims to criminalize the purchasing of sex and decriminalizing the selling of it. A member of the […]
Chemical castration? No, this is not a Margaret Atwood novel
Justice secretary Shabana Mahmood of the United Kingdom is considering options for expanding chemical castration treatments for sex offenders. Chemical castration combines drugs with therapy to lower testosterone levels with the aim to lower one’s sex drive. There are currently chemical castration pilot programs happening in English prisons, but they are on a voluntary basis. […]
What does it mean for users if OnlyFans is sold?
OnlyFans is owned by American internet entrepreneur Leonid Radvinsky and could soon be sold in a deal worth a whopping 8 billion dollars. While the company is quite young, having been founded in Britain in 2016, it has significantly altered the nature of sex work around the world. By making sex work a more accessible […]
A small win for queer rights in conservative-led Italy
Italy’s Constitutional Court ruled recently that female couples who use in vitro fertilization (IVF) abroad can both be legally recognized as parents back in their home country, even for partners who are not the biological mothers. While this ruling does not change other laws under Italy’s conservative government, such as Italy’s current restricted access to IVF […]
Another BDSM story is making its mark
If you’re a film buff you are likely aware of Pillion, a film that just premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on May 18. The film stars Henry Melling and Alexander Skarsgard. It’s about a gay BDSM relationship, and Skarsgard plays the motorcycle-riding dom character, a fact that will surely please many of his fans. According […]
The Trump administration showing more of their true colors
While discussing the administration’s justification to cut funding to universities on a Fox news segment, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt tossed up some disturbing but not at all surprising word salad. She said that President Trump would prefer funds go towards the trades than “LGBTQ graduate majors” at Harvard. What exactly did she mean […]
Saying no to the gender binary is an increasingly tough stance
Barbara J. Risman, Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of Illinois Chicago, makes a great point in her article for The Conversation: it’s not just trans people who are under attack by the Trump administration. Hate is being flung at anyone who doesn’t subscribe to traditional gender norms. In fact many trans people DO […]
12 Virgins get sent to an island…
Channel 4 – a British public-service broadcaster out of the United Kingdom – has produced a new reality TV show that follows 12 virgins who get sent to an island to face their virginity and tap into their desires – aka: get laid. Therapists, intimacy coaches, and other “professionals” are available to help the virgins […]