An Ohio man residing on a busy road has posted a giant banner pointing to the next-door neighbor’s house and identifying him as a sex offender based on a 2002 offense of statutory rape, for which he served two years in prison. Passing motorists are encouraged to honk in support of the effort to force […]
Michigan state Rep. Josh Schriver (R) introduced a bill, the Anticorruption of Public Morals Act, that proposes banning pornography and depictions of transgender people, real or imagined, under very broad terms. This pushes criminal penalties, heavy fines, possible sexual-offence charges. Critics argue that the bill is unconstitutional and say it conflates trans existence with obscenity […]
Sexual offense laws require anyone who is convicted of a sexual offense to be put on a registry once the individual has served out their sentence. Public registration and restrictions extended beyond an individual’s sentence are punitive and put the registrant and their families at risk. A 71-year old man who was on California’s online […]
In a defamation action brought by a man with a decades-old conviction for statutory rape involving a consensual relationship with a 15-year old while he was in his 20s, a federal court ruled against him, finding that it is “substantially true” to call such an individual a “pedophile” even though nothing in his background or […]
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 […]
The stunning acquittal of Sean “Diddy” Combs on the most serious counts of sex trafficking and racketeering surprised many, but not experienced federal prosecutors. Instead, he was merely convicted on two counts of violating the archaic 1910 Mann Act for transporting persons across state lines for purposes of sex work. The jury’s refusal to buy […]
The June 26-29 conference of the National Association for Rational Sexual Offense Laws (NARSOL) in Grand Rapids has been indefinitely postponed at the last minute due to a bomb threat against the hotel, which chose to cancel the contract rather than run the risk of an attack. The threats came from individuals associated with the […]
Despite Islam’s condemnation of homosexuality in the form of loving and consensual relations between two men or two women, it seems to be tolerated as an open secret when it takes place in the form of sexual violence and abuse in Madrasas in Pakistan. Many poor families entrust their sons to these religious educational institutions, […]
Florida prosecutors announce that they are seeking the death penalty against an African-American child sex offender who had been punished for an earlier sex offense and was then found to have molested his girlfriend’s two daughters over a long period. A 2023 law signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis makes this possible. A number of state […]
Can child porn be a crime when it involves no actual children? A Danish appellate court has so ruled in sentencing AI artist Barry Coty to 18 months’ in prison. Denmark used to be famous as a place where even real child pornography was legal, during which time sex offense rates actually went down. Outlawing […]
