By Joel Mathis The Week Suddenly the American right is fairly exploding with accusations of sexual “grooming” against its political opponents. Christina Pushaw, the spokesperson for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, used the term last month to defend the so-called “Don’t Say Gay” bill. “If you’re against the Anti-Grooming […]
“You want me to explain this to my kids?” Yes, bozo, you’re their FATHER, that’s what parents are SUPPOSED to do.
By Grayson Quay The Week Missouri’s state legislature is considering a proposal that would empower private citizens to sue anyone who helps a Missouri woman obtain an abortion, even if the abortion takes place in another state, Politico reported Saturday. “If a Missouri resident is hurt, even in Illinois, […]
“Most Americans” is, currently, a meaningless indicator.
By Alexis Grenell The Nation In conversation with the adult film doyenne on porn, feminism, and identity. Like much of the world, I’ve been captivated by adult film actress turned director Stormy Daniels—but not for the usual reasons. Her encounter with former President Donald Trump is the least […]
By Elie Mystal The Nation In a nod to the bad old days, an amendment to a Missouri anti-abortion bill would make it a crime to help a pregnant Missourian get an abortion outside the state. The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 mandated the seizure and return of […]
By PAUL J. WEBER and JAMIE STENGLE, Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas abortion providers on Friday conceded a final blow to their best hope of stopping the nation’s most restrictive abortion law after a new ruling ended what little path forward the U.S. Supreme Court had […]
Russian orthodoxy is effectively an arm of the Russian state. In fact, in 2019 the Ukrainian orthodoxy became separately ruled from Russian orthodoxy. This angered Putin greatly. Also, orthodoxy is a lot like Catholicism but specifically is different in being led federally instead of a unitarian model. So […]
By Matt Taibbi Long before controversies in Canada and Russia saw financial services politicized, porn star Cheri Deville warned about payment processors having too much power over speech. Over the last few years, you may have read stories explaining that Visa and Mastercard were imposing new rules to […]
Many of the most anti-gay countries are client states, protectorates, or heavily subsidized by the USA By Eric Fleischmann | March 4th, 2022, Center for a Stateless Society Last week, The Gay Times reported that—based on “a leaked letter sent on 20 February to Michelle Bachelet, the United Nations’ (UN) High Commissioner for […]
Host of the Bad Faith Podcast, Briahna Joy Gray, reacts to Senate Democrats’ failed push to invoke cloture on the codification of Roe v. Wade.
By Ankush Kumar, Yahoo News Desperate to avoid the shadow of Vladimir Putin’s bigoted regime falling over Ukraine, LGBTQ combat volunteers told The Daily Beast that members of the gay community had been rushing to prepare for this invasion of Ukraine in recent weeks. Now, they stand ready […]
Robby Soave makes the case that issues related to transgenderism and gender fluidity shouldn’t be adjudicated in primary school classrooms.
Pennsylvania House candidate and advisor to the National LGBT Chamber of Commerce, Jonathan Lovitz, makes the case against Florida’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill.
By Brendan Morrow The Week The Supreme Court is set to take up a case concerning whether a Colorado web designer may decline to provide her services for same-sex weddings. The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to hear the case, in which a Christian web designer, Lorie Smith, […]
Ryan Grim, Robby Soave, and Kim Iversen break down new data revealing Americans lost $1 Billion to romance scams in 2021.
By Christina Coulter For Dailymail.Com Oregon Gubernatorial candidate Stan Pulliam (R), 40, was outed as a swinger when Facebook posts and a photo from Portland’s Erotic Ball in 2011 surfaced Pulliam, the current two-term mayor of his hometown Sandy, is polling in second place among Republican candidates and […]
By Andrew Sullivan Kathleen was a professor of philosophy at the University of Sussex for nearly 20 years. Last fall, she resigned under duress following a vicious campaign to have her fired for questioning the policy goals of radical trans activists. Her latest book is Material Girls: Why […]
By Mimi Lau South China Morning Post It aims to ‘improve reproductive health’ and will set up a task force for education and communication projects, according to plan outlining key initiatives for the year Association will also roll out pilot public health programmes to encourage Chinese to have […]
Team Rising considers the Florida ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill that bars some conversations about gender identity and sexual orientation from taking place in classrooms and counselors’ offices, and has earned the support of Governor Ron DeSantis.
By Ed West The soppy 90s epic Titanic famously tells the story of star-crossed-lovers whose budding romance is thwarted by Anglo-Saxon class constraints and an enormous iceberg. There is Rose, a frustrated young gentry woman destined for a life of pampered Edwardian luxury, and Jack, the happy-go-lucky starving […]
From 2019. My guess is that laws pertaining to prostitution in the US will eventually splinter into three different directions: Some states and localities will have the conventional prohibition model. Others will have the so-called “Nordic model” and still others will have either full decriminalization or legalization. There […]
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS and LEAH WILLINGHAM, AP News JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — If you are Black or Hispanic in a conservative state that already limits access to abortions, you are far more likely than a white woman to have one. And if the U.S. Supreme Court allows […]
By Dr. Sean Gabb So far as I understand it, conversion therapy is the attempt, by prayer, by nagging, and by playing with mental associations, to change sexual tastes. It is mostly tried by male Christians who are disturbed by their inclinations. For what it may be worth, […]
And this isn’t even a public school library, this is just the town library.
By Arwa Mahdawi The Guardian (Not much) sex in the city And just like that, nobody’s having sex any more. Middle-aged people aren’t having much. Young people aren’t having much. Japanese people aren’t having much. Nor are Brits or Australians or Americans. Over the past decade a number […]
I don’t really have any problem with “voluntary arranged marriages.” It still works that way in India (kinda sorta). In the future, we may see a great deal of diversification of family life, including the return of arranged marriages and traditional polygamy from the right end, and the […]
This is an interesting article about a contemporary moral panic. Underage sex is one of America’s latest hysterias. Nowadays, we’ve got not only the Pizzagate/QAnon “pedophile under every bed” hysteria, but there is increasingly an effort to equate sexual relations between adults and postpubescent minors with pedophilia. An […]
This is a pretty nuanced discussion of this issue. By Ronald Weitzer, Global Policy This is part of a forthcoming Global Policy e-book on modern slavery. Contributions from leading experts highlighting practical and theoretical issues surrounding the persistence of slavery, human trafficking and forced labour are being serialised here over the coming months. Ronald […]
By Tom Leonard, The Daily Mail Gallup survey, based on interviews with more than 121,000 people, showed that 3.4% of U.S. adults were lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT) Highest proportion in black community, at 4.6%, followed by Asians (4.3%), Hispanics (4%) and Caucasians (3.2%) Poll found 44% […]
Anarchist News This episode features an interview with Cid V. Brunet about their recent memoir “This Is My Real Name: A Stripper’s Memoir. We talk about stripping, sex work, anarchist community, sex, gender and much more. Buy the book at Arsenal Pulp Press. LISTEN HERE
–In a completely incoherent rant on Fox News, former Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin claims that liberals want to “pound pound pound” the idea of sex into the minds of Americans (???)
Progressotards never seem to learn that compulsory secularization is precisely how you fuel religious extremism. By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz A new law, put in place on Saturday in Canada, is causing concern that it may criminalize the dissemination of the Bible. The concern is that Bill C-4, the […]
The hosts answer your questions about Roe v. Wade, politicians they admire, and natural immunity.
By Vincent Harinam, Quillette Whether you’re an impartial onlooker or active combatant in the culture wars, you may have come across the term “simp.” A lexical fixture in Twitch chatrooms and TikTok videos, simps are romantically-challenged men whose servile nature prevents them from earning the affection of their […]
Ryan Grim details new results from a survey on public reception to transgender activism.
By Stephanie H. Murray The Week 2021 was full of surprises: The Capitol riot was a bit of a shock; COVID-19 variants sprung up left and right; and, perhaps strangest of all, sperm was all over the papers. That’s because the pandemic caused a serious shortage in the market […]
By Charles M. Blow, New York Times The Supreme Court on Friday issued a decision allowing abortion providers in Texas to continue challenging a new law that bans most abortions in the state after about six weeks of pregnancy. But while the conservative majority didn’t close the door […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley The following is the Gospel according to Nicky Reid, a ranting, genderfuck, lesbian, Christopagan anarchist from the 21st Century. Like all religious propaganda, it is loosely based on a hot mess of new age folklore, revisionist history, pharmacological […]
By Robert Barnes Washington Post The Supreme Court on Friday left in place a Texas law that bans most abortions after six weeks, but it provided a path for abortion providers to challenge what is the nation’s most restrictive law on the procedure. The court’s splintered decision allows […]
On today’s What America’s Thinking, a new Hill-HarrisX poll reveals Americans are evenly split on how the Supreme Court should treat Roe v. Wade.
Here we go. Another step toward Civil War Two. By ADAM BEAM, Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — With more than two dozen states poised to ban abortion if the U.S. Supreme Court gives them the OK next year, California clinics and their allies in the state Legislature […]
By Mira Fox, Forward No one looks to porn for its great morals and upstanding behavior; even ethically-made porn, which ensures respect, safety and good pay for everyone on set, can depict BDSM scenes that (consensually!) hurt or humiliate the participants, which many people find troubling. Mainstream porn […]
By Damon Linker, The Week America’s abortion precedents are a mess. They’re also as good as we’ll get. Even in our politically polarized time, abortion stands out as an issue uniquely defined by extremes. On one side, anti-abortion activists want the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade […]
Krystal and Saagar provide an update on the chances Roe v. Wade gets overturned now that the Supreme Court is deliberating on a challenge to the decision from Mississippi
By ASHRAF KHALIL, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — As the Supreme Court court weighs the future of the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, a resurgent anti-abortion movement is looking to press its advantage in state-by-state battles while abortion-rights supporters prepare to play defense. Both sides seem to […]
By Amy Littlefield, The Nation If Supreme Court rules as expected, a group of committed abortion rights supporters is ready to fight to “liberate abortion.” Jessy Rosales stood in front of the Supreme Court Building on Wednesday, holding a yellow circle printed with the words “I had an […]
By Andrew Sullivan The case for returning the abortion question to politics. There is no question, it seems to me, that abortion is an issue where the burden on women vastly outweighs the burden on men. Up to nine months of carrying and then caring for an infant […]
Team Rising breaks down yesterday’s oral arguments at the Supreme Court.
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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