Parliamentarian Julius Malema, head of the pan-Africanist Marxist party Economic Freedom Fighters in South Africa, has endorsed decriminalizing sex work at a Women’s Day rally, linking this move to a broader agenda of protecting women from violence. Whether this will provide new impetus to the long-stalled bill proposed by the South African cabinet in 2022 […]
Is Critical Pedo Theory for the Right What Critical Race Theory Is for the Left?
Although it is becoming increasingly obvious that there is no “there there” in the conspiracy theories surrounding Jeffrey Epstein, who was neither a blackmailer nor a pedophile, but a promiscuous heterosexual ephebophile who took advantage of teenage girls, the populist Right continues to be obsessed with the notion of a globalist pedophile elite. This is […]
St. Lucia Decriminalizes Homosexuality
The island nation of St. Lucia is the latest to join its neighbors (Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Saint Kitts and Nevis, and Dominica) in moving to decriminalize same-sex relations. Colonial throwbacks like “buggery” and gross indecency” had previously been punishable by up to 10 years in prison under St. Lucia’s Criminal Code. Regional advocacy groups […]
Cuba Eases Process for Trans People to Change ID
Once known as one of the most homophobic countries in Latin America, Cuba continues to liberalize. Its parliament voted on July 18 to make it easier for trans people to change the gender marker on their ID without having undergone surgery. Gender-transition surgery has nominally been available in Cuba for free since 2008, but dissidents […]
Can I choke you?
The increasing normalization of choking as part of sexual play is causing some sexual subjects alarm. We reported on this in a past sex news load, but the United Kingdom has in fact announced that it will ban the depiction of strangulation in pornography, primarily to safeguard women against violence. As BDSM styles of sex […]
FTC Targets Pediatric Gender Medicine for Deceptive and Fraudulent Claims
The Trump administration has expanded its assault on pediatric gender medicine, as the Federal Trade Commission and Justice Department have announced they are investigating over 20 gender clinics for making fraudulent and deceptive claims about the medical necessity of gender transition for minor patients. In addition, pharmaceutical companies are being investigated for “violations of drug […]
On Canada’s commitment to civility, tolerance, and diversity
Nations across the globe have had to contend with Donald Trump and his unorthodox (I’m being very generous here) ways of governing the most powerful (although declining) country. Canada, in particular, has been especially tested by the menace south of its border. Francesco MacAllister-Caruso, a PhD candidate at Concordia University, makes a very important point […]
It’s time parents grow up re: sex education
If you know the history of the development of sex education programs then its current failures are not all that surprising. Sex education in the U.S. was born out of the social hygiene movement in the early 1900s. Sex was often chastised as immoral and deviant, and was considered a fast track to disease. Not […]
Conspiracy Theories Continue to Swirl around Jeffrey Epstein
The belief that there exists an extensive list of well-connected “clients” from the global elite who cavorted with teenage girls at late financier Jeffrey Epstein’s estate in the Virgin Islands has long been a staple of right-wing conspiracy theorizing, including by current officials of the Trump administration. However, now that they are in office, they […]
This ain’t no parade
Although Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s government banned Pride gatherings in his country recently, around 100,000 people showed up to March on the 28th in a significant “fuck you!” showing of fierce resistance and solidarity. The amendment to Hungary’s constitution that led to the Pride ban was motivated by “child protection” according to the government. More […]