After exhaustive review of the copious e-mails and bank records of Jeffrey Epstein, the FBI has concluded there is no credible evidence he was trafficking women to other men, as is commonly alleged by the conspiracy theories surrounding the late financier. They did find ample evidence of his paying high-school aged girls for sexualized massages […]
France Redefines Rape
In the wake of the sensational Gisèle Pelicot gang-rape trial, the French Senate unanimously approved a bill, previously approved by the National Assembly, to redefine rape as any sexual act without consent, defined as “freely given, informed, specific, prior, and revocable.” This makes rape easier to prove than the previous standard, which required an expression […]
Pray and Prey: Fundamentalist Pastors and Child Abuse
An investigation by NBC news reveals a 50-year pattern of covering up child abuse by pastors, youth leaders, and church volunteers in the Assemblies of God, the world’s largest Pentecostal denomination. Aspects of the church’s theology, which emphasizes both forgiveness and divine “anointment” of pastors gifted with charismatic powers, have created an environment of reluctance […]
It’s Raining…Green Dildos?
The surreal phenomenon of sex toys being thrown onto basketball courts during WNBA games as of late has a new plot twist: a cryptocurrency group has come forward and claimed responsibility for starting the trend as a protest of sorts against the state of things in the crypto world. I’ll admit that upon first glance […]
Queers are keeping the receipts…
…because someone has to! Journalism of this kind is so important in this here and now. When the time comes for building back, for healing, and for redesigning an American sociopolitical infrastructure that is more productive for more people – and such a time will come my dear sexual subjects, I promise you – detailed […]
Doubts Surround Media Hype over Jeffrey Epstein
Political actors and media on both the Left and Right are motivated to keep this story going, as it feeds popular anxieties about sinister elites exploiting the innocent with impunity. However, there has been too little scrutiny over the credibility of the claimants who have won millions in civil actions against the Epstein estate and […]
Bad Monks and the Woman Who Scammed Them
Wilawan Emsawat was arrested on July 15 in Thailand and has been charged with extortion, money laundering and receiving stolen goods. She is alleged to have blackmailed several senior monks for money and gifts. Thai police have noted that about 385 million baht ($11.9m) was deposited into the accused bank accounts over the past three […]
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 […]
Sextortion schemes target young men
Sextortion scams where victims are blackmailed via threats to make public sexual photographs or other explicit/intimate content that involves them is on the rise as a criminal activity across the world. This trending style of being an asshole is an interesting case study of sexual subjects taking advantage of each other in a world where […]
Madrasas are hotbeds of child sexual abuse
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, […]