Posted in del.icio.us, sex on Jan 28th, 2010
China’s latest scandal is counterfeit condoms – latimes.com – Health officials warn that inferior contraceptives can spread the diseases they are supposed to protect against. Some of the brand-name knockoffs have reached the U.S.
La Figa » Trans Speaker Receives Threat Over Appearance at Yale “Sex Week” – The threat, received through Angel’s Facebook account via [...]
Posted in del.icio.us, sex on Dec 17th, 2009
Facebook’s “Privacy Fiasco” Reaches New Milestone With FTC Complaint – Unfortunately for Facbeook, a group of ten privacy and consumer groups announced today that they have filed a complaint with the FTC, alleging that the the privacy-policy changes violate federal law.
Facebook | Updates on Your New Privacy Tools –
Project ‘Gaydar’: An MIT experiment raises [...]
Posted in del.icio.us, sex on Dec 3rd, 2009
The Sex Doctor Is Out / Violet Blue: Talk to your doctor about sex? You’re better off asking Twitter – Picking out a new doctor that you'll feel comfortable talking to — and hope to get accurate answers from — is a challenge with a health care system that is not consumer friendly, nor awake [...]
Posted in del.icio.us, sex on Nov 11th, 2009
Text Scarleteen | Scarleteen – To ask Scarleteen a question via text, just text 66746 and start your question with the keyword ASKST.
it’s not rope: couture Shibari in Exit Magazine | violet blue ® :: open source sex –
Film Festival Secrets: Programmer Profile: Lisa Vandever of CineKink – Nothing wrong with a little titillation [...]
Posted in marriage on Apr 7th, 2009
BOSTON (Reuters) – Vermont lawmakers on Tuesday overrode a veto from the governor in passing a bill that would allow same-sex marriage, clearing the way for the state to become the fourth in the nation where gay marriage is legal.
The Vermont House of Representatives passed the bill by a 100-49 vote after it cleared the [...]
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
Related posts
When the [...]
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
Related posts
Sexual heights (My Messy Bedroom; hour.ca) (0)
links for 2008-05-30 (0)
links for 2008-03-04 (0)
Gay marriage in South Africa (0)
For a new book about marriage and sex, Anataomy of a Marriage, Gail Konop Baker is seeking to interview married women who have had affairs:
I’m trying to solicit interviews from married women who have had affairs for my new book proposal. I posted it on my status on facebook and on Twitter and have had [...]
. . . The most consistent data on infidelity come from the General Social Survey, sponsored by the National Science Foundation and based at the University of Chicago, which has used a national representative sample to track the opinions and social behaviors of Americans since 1972. The survey data show that in any given year, [...]
Posted in sex on Oct 25th, 2008
Brad Balfour interviews Sam Rockwell about Choke. (HuffPo)
Alternet has an article on Sarah Palin and sex ed.
Bacchus warns us about Eden Fantasys.
Kathlyn and Gay Hendricks discuss relationship politics: the Obama relationship and body language of the McCain marriage.
Twanna Hines interviews Lust in Translations’ Pamela Druckerman on American political scandals.
The Black Phoenix playspace in Philadelphia is [...]
Posted in gay, gay marriage on Sep 5th, 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York officials should recognize same-sex marriages performed in other states and countries where they are legal, even though New York State does not allow gay marriage, a state court judge ruled on Tuesday.
Justice Lucy Billings rejected arguments by the national Alliance Defense Fund that New York Gov. David Paterson overstepped [...]
Posted in lesbian on Sep 1st, 2008
Del Martin, co-founder of the first national lesbian-rights organization in the United States, died Aug. 27 at age 87. We remember her with an excerpt from a Fresh Air interview that first aired on Dec. 29, 1992. (You can hear the complete conversation using the link at left.)
Martin and her partner Phyllis Lyon founded the [...]
Lesbian rights pioneer Del Martin, whose trailblazing activism spanned more than five decades, most recently in the battle for same-sex marriage, died Wednesday, just two months after she made history again by wedding her longtime partner in San Francisco City Hall.
Ms. Martin, an author and organizer, died at UCSF Hospice after a long period of [...]
Posted in adultery, infidelity, marriage on Aug 15th, 2008
…My point is that we don’t really know exactly what she knew. And there is no point in continuing to kick her now. What people do in the dynamics of a marriage is really their business. After the camera takes the confession, after the public figure is humiliated, after we all shake our heads and [...]
See: The Affairs of Men (New York Magazine)
Tags: marriage, sex
Related posts
Why I’m Divorced (And Why You’re Next) (Hartford Advocate) (0)
What was Craig’s Crime? (The Volokh Conspiracy) (0)
What Shamu Taught Me About a Happy Marriage (NY Times) (3)
Washington U. to award Phyllis Schlafly honorary degree (0)
Swingtown – Molly Parker as Susan Miller, Jack Davenport as Bruce Miller, Lana Parrilla as Trina Decker, Grant Show as Tom Decker (CBS Photo by Cliff Lipson)
Show Title: Swingtown
Episode Title: “Pilot”
Original airdate: June 5, 2008
Series continues: Thursday, 10 pm
Network: CBS
Produced by: CBS Paramount Television
Executive Producers: Michael Kelley, Allen Poul and Carol Barbee
Description
From the program’s website [...]
Posted in del.icio.us on Jun 6th, 2008
And Then There Were Three | FUNKYBROWNCHICK.com | sex. dating. relationships.
I had my first threesome with two friends last night. Needless to say, that is so tooooootally not how I expected yesterday evening / this morning to turn out.
(tags: sex sexblogs)
balanced on the tip of my tongue | Sugarbutch Chronicles
We talked. Safer sex, my history, [...]
Posted in gay marriage, marriage, new york on Jun 4th, 2008
from Marriage Equality NY
GET INVOLVED- Gov. Patterson is polling support for his marriage decision as opposition takes legal action!
Gov. David Paterson told state agencies on May 14 that New York must recognize same-sex marriages performed in Massachusetts, Canada and other places where they are legal. The directive should provide gay couples with as many [...]
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 [...]
Posted in marriage on May 29th, 2008
Geoff Nunberg
“Fresh Air” commentary, May 28, 2008
A couple of months ago, the editors of the Oxford English Dictionary made some long-overdue revisions in the definitions for a bunch of gender-related words. Before then, the dictionary’s definition of girlfriend in the meaning of “sweetheart” read “a man’s favorite female companion,” which would have precluded lesbians from [...]
Posted in del.icio.us on May 29th, 2008
The End of Innocence and Making It Big: The NYTimes spins yet another lost girl tale of innocence, regret and discreetly hot sex | BlogHer
Is there truly any less foolproof way to sell the Sunday issue that to get huge viral buzz from a damsel in distress story played out in that most modern of [...]
Posted in del.icio.us on May 20th, 2008
What Makes Married Men Want to Have Affairs? — New York Magazine
When the Eliot Spitzer scandal broke in March, I had only sympathy for him: another middle-aged married guy tormented by his sexual needs. I’m 52 and have always struggled with the desire for sexual variety. Everyone gets an issue, and that’s mine; it
(tags: sex [...]
Posted in del.icio.us on May 15th, 2008
pretty dumb things: on clowns and fear, itself
Fear is a lot bigger in our heads than it is in real life. In real life, it’s almost always not that bad. And here’s the other thing: those people who wanted to instill fear in me by attempting to out my blog identity to my students, they [...]
Posted in gay, gay marriage, legal, marriage on May 15th, 2008
Bob Egelko, Chronicle Staff Writer
(05-15) 10:31 PDT SAN FRANCISCO — Gays and lesbians have a constitutional right to marry in California, the state Supreme Court said today in a historic ruling that could be repudiated by the voters in November.
In a 4-3 decision, the justices said the state’s ban on same-sex marriage violates the “fundamental [...]
Posted in sex on May 9th, 2008
Posted to the LJ Bisexual community:
Washington University in St. Louis is giving an honorary degree to anti-gay activist Ms. Phylis Schlafly founder of the Eagle Forum a right wing group opposed to LGBT equality and feminism. This woman has fought tirelessly against marriage equality even though her own son is gay, and she has [...]
Posted in del.icio.us on May 5th, 2008
pretty dumb things: on my 2,500 mile booty call
It was the vanilla custard of sex, and it made me recall how vanilla custard can be quite tasty. Vanilla custard can, in fact, hit the spot. Which this did, thank you very much…And when the custard hit that spot, and my hips up-arched like a Roman [...]
Posted in del.icio.us on Apr 30th, 2008
Law Blog – WSJ.com : Fallout from L’Affaire Spitzer: ‘Kristen’ Sues ‘Girls Gone Wild’ Founder
But the legacy of “Kristen” (a/k/a Ashley Alexandra Dupré), the prostitute whom Spitzer hired, lives on. The latest: Dupré is demanding $10 million from Joe Francis, the founder of the popular “Girls Gone Wild” series, for a video that Dupré ap
(tags: [...]
Posted in Tristan Taormino, marriage, polyamory, swinging on Apr 15th, 2008
Author and Village Voice columnist Tristan Taormino has launched a brand new website in anticipation of the release of her new book May 1.
OpeningUp.net is a website for people interested in open relationships of all kinds, including monogamy with benefits, nonmonogamy, partnered nonmonogamy, swinging, polyamory, polyfidelity, solo polyamory, mixed orientation
marriages, and other relationships styles beyond [...]
Posted in galleries, sex, sex blogs, sugasm on Apr 8th, 2008
The best of this week’s blogs by the bloggers who blog them. Highlighting the top 3 posts as chosen by Sugasm participants. Want in Sugasm #127? Submit a link to your best post of the week using this form. Participants, repost the link list within a week and you’re all set.
This Week’s Picks
Posted in marriage on Apr 6th, 2008
By SUZANNE FINNAMORE
I GAINED my husband with soup. Not charm, wit or lingerie, but soup. Not canned soup or deli, but real homemade soup, simmered for hours over a hot Jenn-Air. The kind of soup that makes your eyes roll back in your head and your body feel, for a brief time, safe.
I carried this [...]
