Showing posts with label sex. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sex. Show all posts
Saturday, June 21, 2025

The job description of intimacy coordinator (for sex scenes in films and plays)

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  There's a new profession being practiced, akin to what stunt coordinators have long done in films, to try to keep the actors and stunt...
Sunday, March 9, 2025

Trans Forming Liberty. Amy Sherald at SFMOMA

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 Sometimes politics make an artwork even more politically fraught than when it was painted.      
Thursday, December 12, 2024

The market for (ethical) pornography

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  Will regulation, lawsuits and competition for creators increase the supply of ethical porn? Wired has the story: The Sticky Dilemmas of Po...
Wednesday, December 11, 2024

Nash, music and OnlyFans (not John Nash, but maybe other johns:)

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  Most musicians can't make much of a living from either recordings or live performances.  But there are other kinds of performances. Ka...
Wednesday, December 4, 2024

Adultery is no longer a crime in New York State.

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 Not only is jaywalking no longer a crime in New York City, the seldom-enforced criminal law against adultery in New York State has now bee...
Sunday, December 1, 2024

Workers' rights for sex workers in Belgium

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  Sex work isn't merely legal in Belgium, it's now recognized as work. The BBC has the story:   Belgium's sex workers get matern...
Monday, May 20, 2024

The labor market for OnlyFans chatters

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 Here's a story by a professional writer and journalist, who appears to be a middle-aged dad, about his efforts to find and then master ...
Sunday, May 19, 2024

IVF for sex selection: legal in the U.S

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Slate has the story: The Parents Who Want Daughters—and Daughters Only. Sex selection with IVF is banned in much of the world. Not in the U....
Tuesday, April 16, 2024

New York is about to end its legal ban on adultery

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A 1907 New York state law criminalizing adultery (as a misdemeanor) looks likely to be repealed. New York adulterers could get tossed out of...
Wednesday, April 10, 2024

Vatican statement on gender-affirming surgery and human dignity

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 A new statement from the Vatican has been widely covered in the press. Here's the story from the National Catholic Reporter: Vatican co...
Friday, March 22, 2024

Lysistrata in Kiryat Joel

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  Kiryas Joel is a Hasidic community in New York State, in which ancient religious traditions can come into conflict with modern customs.  ...
Monday, November 27, 2023

Banks boycott sex workers even for legal kinds of sex work

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 Repugnance isn't erased by legality. Workers in morally contested, repugnant markets may be boycotted by banks even when their work is ...
Friday, October 20, 2023

Blood donor questions, revamped.

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 One of the curious things about donating blood is that you are asked about your sex life. Last Thursday the Stanford Blood Center  implemen...
Thursday, April 27, 2023

More anti-gay legislation in Uganda

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 The NY Times has the story about new anti-gay legislation awaiting signature by Uganda's president: We Will Hunt You’: Ugandans Flee Ah...
Monday, April 24, 2023

Michigan Senate seeks to repeal 1931 ban on unmarried cohabitation

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 Michigan now has a more liberal senate than in 1931.  The Guardian has the story, about how even fossil repugnance dies hard: Michigan Repu...
Wednesday, December 7, 2022

Insulting the president, in Indonesia

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  Sex outside of marriage, and insulting the president are to become more serious crimes in Indonesia.  (The law has a foolproof way of dete...
Friday, May 20, 2022

Research on pedophilia presents career hazards

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 It's not always easy to investigate repugnant things, let alone crimes.  Old Dominion University has parted ways with an assistant prof...
Wednesday, March 9, 2022

Singapore court rules that only Parliament can approve gay sex

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 The NY Times has the story, about a colonial era Singapore law that isn't presently leading to prosecutions, but remains on the books: ...
Monday, March 7, 2022

Sex Work: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

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Laughing through the tears about the plight of sex workers, and the complicated and often ridiculous legal environment. (He notes that there...
Saturday, January 29, 2022

Erotic movies versus porn -- times and terms are changing

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In a 1964 case, Jacobellis v. Ohio , Supreme Court Justice  Potter Stewart famously declared that it was difficult to define pornography, b...