Entries Categorized as 'Sex'

Radical feminism v. marriage

Date May 15, 2006

Amanda at Pandagon expresses the “radical feminist” position that we should “tear down the institution of marriage”:http://pandagon.net/2006/05/15/the-radical-feminist-politics-of-oprah-and-glamour-magazine/. What does “tear down” mean? And what is the expected benefit?
If we disposed of marriage entirely because it doesn’t fit “radical feminist” principles, no one would gain any rights — we’d just lose ones we already [...] Read more »

War on Sex gets mainstream notice

Date May 8, 2006

The _New York Times_ has noticed that the anti-choice crowd has become more and more the “anti-sex crowd”:http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/07/magazine/07contraception.html.
bq. Many Christians who are active in the evolving anti-birth-control arena state frankly that what links their efforts is a religious commitment to altering the moral landscape of the country. In particular, and not to put too [...] Read more »

We need a new suffix

Date April 28, 2006

So now we have a real problem with this “sex-for-votes scandal”:http://thinkprogress.org/2006/04/28/prostitutes-six-members/, considering the location. What are we going to call it? Watergate-gate? Read more »

Assault on Sex Toys

Date March 9, 2006

Via
Pesky’, Tennessee moves to make
the sale of sex toys illegal.

Senate Bill 3794 (House Bill 3798), legislation that would make it illegal to sell, advertise, publish or exhibit to another person “any three-dimensional device designed or marketed as useful primarily for the stimulation of human genital organs…â€? [ ... ] this Tennessee legislative tag-team [...] Read more »

Assault on Sex

Date February 24, 2006

Gary “points out a story”::http://matchingtracksuits.com/2006/02/24/the-alternative about the new South Dakota anti-choice law. The full-on assault on sex has begun.
I’ve written before about how we can “reduce abortions _now_”:http://www.thudfactor.com/textpattern/335/5-ways-we-can-help-the-unborn — but Conservatives “don’t want to come to the table”:http://www.thudfactor.com/textpattern/520/5-ways-redux. And, after much other thinking, I’ve finally come to the conclusion that most anti-choice advocates have _zero_ [...] Read more »