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Junior Hockey Players’ Sexual Assault Acquittal Sparks all the Usual Debates over Consent

E.M., the complainant, is seen testifying at trial. Drawing credit: Alexandra Newbould via CBC.

A high-profile Canadian case involving five ex world junior hockey players ended on July 24th when all players were acquitted of criminal charges. The case revolved around a group sex episode, seven years prior, that occurred after a Hockey Canada Foundation Gala & Golf event the players had attended. A lawyer for one of the accused referenced the […]

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Sex Work: It Does a Body (Image) Good

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A recent study published in the Sexuality and Culture explored sex workers’ relationship to body image. Although sex work can ofcourse lead to sexual objectification, the study found that sex work can also act as a productive enabler of body positivity. Participants in the study described experiences of receiving positive feedback about their bodies from […]

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Brazil Stalls Youth Gender Transition Services + Judith Butler’s Latest Treatise

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Moves to limit minors’ access to medicalized gender transition are not unique to the U.S. and Europe. Under political pressure and tied up in litigation, even Brazil’s leftist government has announced it is rescinding an earlier proposal to lower the age at which hormones can be obtained from 18 to 16 and the age for […]

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Bad Monks and the Woman Who Scammed Them

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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 […]

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Sex toys: overpriced commodities or radical tools of resistance?

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Pop star Harry Styles is not currently touring, but he has found a new way to monetize his sex appeal by marketing a double-sided vibrator (adapted for both external and internal use) and his designer lubricant. His “Pleasing” brand previously specialized in female lifestyle products such as cosmetics and candles, but has now opened a […]

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Men with Vaginas Who Attract Gay Men

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“Chicks with dicks” is an infamous straight male sexual taste (scientifically known as gynandromorphophilia), but less explored is the corresponding phenomenon of gay men’s attraction to dudes with vaginas (androgynomorphophilia). Not all transmen are – or were – lesbian, and some identify as gay men themselves, with or without a vagina. Sometimes known as “autoandrophilia,” […]

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Paying for Pride: A Queer Conundrum Continued

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Dr. Daniel Conway – Reader in Politics and International Relations at the University of Westminster, UK and a Research Associate at the Wits Centre for Diversity Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg – participated in the 13th Annual Conference of the Sexuality Studies Association in Toronto earlier this summer. His presentation was based on research from […]

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Is Critical Pedo Theory for the Right What Critical Race Theory Is for the Left?

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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 […]

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Sink your teeth into Slutty Cheff’s new memoir

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There are lots of parallels between sex and food, and I’m surprised the two don’t cross over in the news more often. For one, both require an appetite, and appetites need to be sustained. Slutty Cheff is an anonymous chef from London, England, who writes about her experiences in the restaurant industry – the Orville […]

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St. Lucia Decriminalizes Homosexuality

A local market in Castries, St Lucia, Caribbean, April 2019. © 2019 Fokke Baarssen/Shutterstock via Human Rights Watch.

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 […]

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