We’ve been following the OneTaste saga here at HARD COPY, and it’s been quite a trip, with the most recent chapter culminating in convictions of one of the company’s co-founders and a former head of sales on forced labor charges. OneTaste was founded in 2004 and is in the business of sexual mindfulness, with a […]
Ohio bill aims to limit public drag performances as “harmful to juveniles”
There’s a lot of bills baking right now in the Ohio legislature around LGBTQ+ livelihoods and rights. One recently introduced bill – House Bill 249 – if passed, could criminalize public drag performances. Editor Ken Schneck of The Buckeye Flame has put together a useful guide that explains several significant and recently introduced bills that […]
Florida’s “Fool Around and Find Out” operation culminates
Famous tough-on-crime Florida Sheriff Grady Judd, a favorite of President Trump, proudly announced the results of “Operation Fool Around and Find Out.” It presumed to target human trafficking, but instead arrested 250+ sex workers, clients, and undocumented immigrants and found few, if any, cases of individuals trafficked against their will. The demonization of sex work, […]
Child porn without children?
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 […]
Planned Parenthood and its healthcare services in peril once again
Due to withholding of federal support Planned Parenthood has closed or is in the process of closing clinics located in Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Utah, and Vermont. The non-profit intends to close over a third of its locations across Minnesota and Iowa alone. Planned Parenthood, which often gets caught in the crosshairs of […]
Closure of large gender-affirming care clinic
Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles announces closure of its gender clinic, one of the nation’s largest and most aggressive providers of gender-affirming care for minors, citing the potential loss of federal funding for the entire hospital. The clinic’s director, Dr. Johanna Olson-Kennedy, is a controversial figure who has drawn fire from critics for advocating immediate […]
Did you know that Harvey Milk joined the navy during the Korean War?
To celebrate Pride month this June the generous and oh-so-tactful American Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has indicated that the renaming of the navy ship Harvey Milk is imminent, and perhaps others, in the vein of anti-DEI efforts being led by the current administration. The timing of these actions is uncouth to say the least. […]
Incels are not a monolith
See the latest study of the growing incel (involuntary celibate) population, published open access in Archives of Sexual Behavior. 561 male subjects in the US and UK were recruited from an online Incel forum. Contrary to common stereotypes they are not particularly right-wing and 42% of the sample were non-white. Their mental health is poor, […]
Will society turn on same-sex marriage equality?
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 […]