The Journal of Adolescent Health has recently published a systematic review of 80 studies measuring the benefits of Comprehensive Sex Education (CSE). In addition to reducing pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections, other benefits include better understanding of consent, healthy relationships, puberty and adolescent sexual development, gender expression, sexual orientation, and interpersonal violence. Pedagogical, curricular, classroom, […]
FBI: Epstein Was Not Running a Sex-Trafficking Ring
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 […]
Where Failure to Pay Is Rape
Under a new Australian law, having sex under the pretense of paying for it and then failing to pay is not merely theft, but may qualify as sexual assault. Harmeet Singh Saini was sentenced to six years in prison after failing to pay the $2200 that he owed to a Sydney sex worker and had […]
What Will They Think of Next?
Our beloved state legislators in the US continue to distinguish themselves by silliness when it comes to sex and gender. An Arizona legislator has proposed a bill to make it a felony to bring a minor to an event where people may be dressed in drag. A state senator in Illinois has introduced a bill […]
Texting During the Act
A survey of 10,000 college students by the social media apps YikYak and Sidechat revealed that over 35% admitted to having checked social media or texted someone while they were having sex; some even texted their mom. Is it to boast “Guess what I’m doing now” or are our phones now a bodily appendage more […]
Size Really Does Matter
Why the human penis is unusually large compared to that of other primates is a long-standing evolutionary question. A group of Australian evolutionary biologists and psychologists have studied this question by using computer-generated images to assess female evaluation of male sexual attractiveness and males’ evaluation of a potential rival’s fighting ability and attractiveness to females. […]
LGBT Persecution Ramps Up in Asian Autocracies
Across former (and current) Communist states in Asia, the news is not encouraging for sexual and gender minorities. In Azerbaijan, over 100 patrons of a gay-friendly night club were arrested by police, compelled to stand outside in the cold, and then detained unless willing to pay a bribe. In detention, they were beaten, forced to […]
Is Brigitte Macron a Trans Pedophile?
Statements that the wife of French President Emmanuel Macron was born as a man and is a “pedophile” after first becoming involved with him when she was his high school drama teacher cannot be made with impunity in France. The conflation of transgenderism and pedophilia is all too familiar, as is the assumption that all […]
Grindr Spikes Whenever ICE Comes to Town
Anti-deportation activists have noted a trend for Grindr activity to increase dramatically whenever ICE targets a jurisdiction for enhanced enforcement, as has recently happened in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. This may in part be due to ICE using Grindr and other social media as tools to track the location of their targets and set up […]
A Curious Case of Catfishing
The “bed trick” is a literary device and behavioral phenomenon that can be found in traditions around the globe. From appearances in the bible’s Old Testament to contemporary cultural manifestations like “catfishing” that play out on popular dating/sex apps, the bed trick is a trope of deception in which sexual subjects find themselves fucking (or […]