The good news is that story about Egypt passing, or wanting to pass, a law allowing men to have sex with their dead wives is baloneyThe other good news is that female genital mutilation has been illegal in Egypt since 2008 ( Read more... )

it takes a lot to shock me, but this managed to rise above (sink below?) the norm:

Investigators say that in tapped mobile-phone conversations, Seppia asked a Moroccan drug dealer to arrange sexual encounters with young and vulnerable boys. "I do not want 16-year-old boys but younger. Fourteen-year-olds are O.K. Look for needy boys who have family ( Read more... )

Took a survey from ebay. Looks like they may be considering providing packaging/shipping materials to sellers, and/or setting up package dropoffs at local locations [the survey mentioned Starbucks by name as an example].
I was thinking that our various circumlocutions for the genitalia are primarily used as terms of opprobium. You don't want to ( Read more... )

The dull life of a hedge fund manager, who studied classics at Oxford ( Read more... )

Dan asked his readers to write to some of the school officials involved in the prom debacle.
( So I did. )

Pornography, Public Acceptance and Sex Related Crime: A Review
International Journal of Law and Psychiatry 32 (2009) 304-314

Studies by other investigators, female as well as male, (Barak, Fisher, Belfry, & Lashambe, 1999; L. Baron, 1990; Davies, 1997) essentially found similarly that there was no detectable relationship of the amount of exposure ( Read more... )