Posted in del.icio.us, sex on Feb 25th, 2010
Report: Teen gets 15 years for Facebook blackmail | Digital Media – CNET News – A Wisconsin teenager convicted of using Facebook to blackmail classmates into sex was sentenced to 15 years in prison, according to an Associated Press report.
Apple creating “explicit” category for App Store | TUAW -
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Posted in del.icio.us, sex on Oct 27th, 2009
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Scary Sex Toys – Sex Toys That Are More Scary Than Sexy | Cory Silverberg – the sex toys below are ghoulish not just in their looks, but in misguided conception, poor design, and sometimes obvious danger.
Social Networking – Legal and Ethical Issues for Lawyers and [...]
Posted in legal on Jul 2nd, 2009
NEW DELHI: In a historic judgement, the Delhi High Court on Thursday decriminalized homosexuality by reading down section 377 of the Indian
The Section 377 of the IPC as far as it criminalizes gay sex among consenting adults is violation of fundamental rights, said the high court. However, Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code which [...]
Posted in Links for on May 27th, 2009
LA Times article on the upholding of Proposition 8:
“The justices uphold the same-sex marriage ban but also rule that the 18,000 gay couples who wed before November will stay married. The decision is sure to spark another ballot box fight.”
American Foundation for Equal Rights is supporting the lawsuit filed by top litigators Ted Olson and [...]
Posted in legal on Feb 19th, 2009
A gay man in the US state of Georgia is disputing a child custody agreement restriction which prohibits him from “exposing his children to his homosexual partners and friends.”
Lambda Legal, a gay rights advocacy group, yesterday filed an amicus brief in support of Eric Mongerson at the Georgia Supreme Court.
The brief argues that restrictions on [...]
Posted in gay marriage on Feb 9th, 2009
“Fidelity”: Don’t Divorce… from Courage Campaign on Vimeo.
“Fidelity” used with permission from Regina Spektor and EMI Records.
Watch the video and sign the Courage Campaign’s letter to the California Supreme Court. Tell the Supreme Court to invalidate Prop 8, reject Ken Starr’s case, and let loving, committed couples marry.
DEADLINE: Valentine’s Day
Tags: legal, marriage, same-sex
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Posted in legal on Jan 21st, 2009
The Child Online Protection Act, now a decade old, appears to be permanently, completely, and otherwise absolutely dead now that the Supreme Court has rejected Bush Administration pleas to consider reviving the law one more time. According to the Associated Press, the rejection was made without comment by the justices.
More….
Tags: COPA, internet, legal
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Posted in gay marriage on Dec 16th, 2008
Law professors Jack Balkin of Yale and Ann Althouse of the University of Wisconsin debate whether marriage should be replaced with civil unions for both gay and straight couples.
Tags: gay marriage, legal, marriage
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Posted in lbgt, legal, transgender on Dec 1st, 2008
By Joel Stashenko
New York Law Journal
November 28, 2008
ALBANY – A transgender individual should be allowed to legally assume a new name to reflect her identity as a woman, a state appeals court ruled Wednesday.
In Matter of Earl William Golden III, 504992, the Appellate Division, Third Department, reversed the finding of Supreme Court Justice Jeffrey A. [...]
. . . Mr. Garcia’s approach is at odds with a growing global awareness of the harms of prostitution, including its adverse effects on the safety of nonprostituting women as well as those in it. Prosecuting johns does make a difference, as Sweden has discovered. Sweden levies serious legal penalties against johns whom the Swedish [...]
Posted in del.icio.us on Oct 28th, 2008
Cara writes about California’s Prop 4, the anti-choice ballot initiative which would add a parental notification requirement for teenagers seeking an abortion.
Blood, guts and boning: J.D Bauchery of Hot Movies for Her picks her top 5 Halloween pornos.
Comstock Films’ No on Proposition Fundraiser started today and runs until Wednesday, 3 AM EST. Shop now!
Shine Louise [...]
Jefferson has posted an FAQ about the custody case, which is still pending.
AAG is writing about an ugly situation with an affiliate company.
The Village Voice has a slideshow of this past weekends NY Leather Weekend.
Lee Harrington’s October newsletter and appearances may be found here.
The children of Dr. Martin Luther King are fighting over love letters [...]
Posted in gay marriage, legal on Oct 10th, 2008
HARTFORD, Conn. — Connecticut’s Supreme Court ruled Friday that gay couples have the right to marry, making the state the third behind Massachusetts and California to legalize such unions through the courts. The ruling comes just weeks before Californians go to the polls on a historic gay-marriage ballot question, the first time the issue will [...]
Posted in sex on Oct 6th, 2008
. . . On an online message board, a member who calls himself “Sick Fuck” posted an inventory of Max Hardcores most extreme scenes. The list is long. Some of the videos were created for European distribution, where the market is more permissive, an argument Little used to defend the graphic nature of his videos [...]
Posted in legal, transgender on Sep 22nd, 2008
From the Associated Press:
A former Army Special Forces commander passed over for a job as a terrorism analyst at the Library of Congress because he was changing genders won a discrimination lawsuit. Judge James Robinson of Federal District Court ruled that the Library of Congress had engaged in sex discrimination against Diane Schroer of Alexandria, [...]
Posted in transgender on Sep 16th, 2008
. . .Preece, who was 51 at the time, worked then — as she does now — for the Library of Congress, where she helps make hiring decisions for the Congressional Research Service (CRS), the U.S. Congress’s analysis agency. She had decided to recommend an ex–Special Forces colonel named David Schroer to be CRS’s terrorism [...]
Posted in legal on Sep 10th, 2008
by Glenn Sacks
…LGBT activists believe courts haven’t adequately protected the rights of lesbian social mothers because of the tenuous legal status of gay marriages and relationships, and they’re partly correct. But much of the problem lies in the way courts treat noncustodial parents, regardless of sexual orientation.
According to the Children’s Rights Council, a Washington, DC-based [...]
1. Sex-slave conviction overturned
2. Murder-suicide autopsies: 3 died of gunshot wounds
3. ‘Booger Red’ Gets Life
4. This swinger feels persecuted
5. Study Suggests Polygamy May Lead To A Longer Life
6. For some, Gitmo interrogation techniques are a real turn-on
7. Court overturns conviction of NYC’s ‘S&M Svengali’
National Coalition for Sexual Freedom — Media Update
media@ncsfreedom.org
August 22, 2008
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Here’s a note from Jefferson about last night’s fundraiser. Thank you to all those who contributed, volunteered or attended! -Viviane
Last night’s Friends of Jefferson event was a great success. Thanks to everyone who attended and contributed. Thanks especially to those who donated items to the raffle—which included, my gosh, an original drawing by Nayland Blake!—and [...]
I wasn’t going to comment on the Second Circuit’s decision reversing Glenn Marcus’ conviction until it was published, and I had read it–which I have now. What strikes me first and foremost is how close a call it was for Marcus–two of the three judges who voted to reverse his conviction did so on the [...]
A federal appeals court has overturned the conviction of a man dubbed the “S&M Svengali” and ordered a retrial in a sensational case that involved mutilation and extreme humiliation.
Glenn Marcus, 55, was convicted of breaking a law that wasn’t in place when some of the offenses happened, which amounted to a violation of the U.S. [...]
Posted in Events, Fetish & Kink, Jefferson, sex on Aug 16th, 2008
Tags: legal, nyc, sexblog
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By: Mark Kernes
Posted: 08/07/2008
PITTSBURGH – Karen Fletcher, the Donora, Pennsylvania woman who ran the RedRoseStories.com Website, which the government charged contained obscene text pieces involving sex with and torture of underage characters, today pleaded guilty to six counts of “using an interactive computer service to distribute obscene materials.”
Fletcher, whose site had 29 subscribers worldwide and [...]
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An important member of the sex-positive community
urgently needs our help.
Jefferson—blogger, educator, and dear friend to so many of us—is at this moment fighting a court battle with his ex-wife, who is seeking full custody of their three children.
Jefferson’s love for his children has been well-documented on his blog One Life, [...]
BATON ROUGE – The Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals has denied petitions by Travis County (Tex.) D.A. Ronnie Earle and intervenor-defendant State of Texas to rehear the Reliable Consultants case, in which a three-judge panel found that the sale and use of adult novelties for purposes of sexual stimulation was protected by the Fourteenth [...]
Join the Friends of Jefferson
on August 27, 7 p.m. to 10 p.m.
at
Happy Ending Lounge
302 Broome Street, NYC • B or D to Grand Street
J, M, Z to Bowery • F to Delancy
$20 suggested donation—but pay what you wish
Come and get your spank on at the Spanking Booth!
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Posted in 2257, legislation, sex on Jun 7th, 2008
CANOGA PARK, Calif. – The U.S. Department of Justice today issued proposed regulations for Section 2257A, an addition to the 2257 federal record-keeping law which applies to those who produce images of simulated sexual activity.
The proposed regulations appear at pages 32262 through 32273 of volume 73 of the Federal Register and on the Free Speech [...]
Posted in legal on Jun 7th, 2008
Eric Krangel | June 7, 2008 8:00 AM
Pornographer Paul F. Little, who works under the moniker “Max Hardcore,” lives and works in California. But that didn’t stop the Feds from hauling Little 2,500 miles across the country to Tampa, Florida, where they convinced a jury to convict him on 20 counts of obscenity this week. [...]
Posted in del.icio.us on May 31st, 2008
Mr. Lessig Goes to Washington
Lessig, with his placid mien and quiet voice, does not exude the aura of a star, but over the past decade he’s become one of the most influential public intellectuals of the Internet age. Along with a small group of activists, legal academics and computer
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Posted in del.icio.us on May 30th, 2008
What constitutes sexual harrassment? Confessions of a woman who can finally admit that she experienced it | BlogHer
He used such a crass image to verbally smack me in the mouth. To shut me up. I suppose he referred to my other colleague’s private parts to prevent any possible accusation that he’d suggested sexual acts done [...]
