this is why we need marriage equality
- Feb, 23, 2009
- Charlie Glickman
- sexual politics
- 1 Comment.

According to the Bay Area Reporter, a Congressional bill has been reintroduced to enable queer US citizens to sponsor their non-citizen partners for legal residency. Just like folks in m/f marriages can.
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we need some porn research
- Nov, 19, 2008
- Charlie Glickman
- pornography, sex research, sexual politics
- No Comments.

I’ve been inspired lately and I’ve been reading a lot of articles and blogs about porn. The first thing that I have to say is that many of them seem to be written by people with very little actual information about the industry. I’ve been with Good Vibrations for 12 years now, and I’ve learned […]
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some more thoughts on the Price of Pleasure
- Nov, 14, 2008
- Charlie Glickman
- pornography, sexual politics
- 1 Comment.

I’ve been reading Ernest Green’s Pro-Porn Activism blog lately and I really like his take on the anti-porn documentary propaganda that I also blogged about recently. I also highly recommend checking out his extensive posts about Stop Porn Culture, including how they misrepresented what many of their porn industry interviewees said, since they contradicted the […]
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a response to the anti-porn folks
- Nov, 12, 2008
- Charlie Glickman
- pornography, sex & culture, sexual politics
- 2 Comments.

The other day, Kuono posted about the latest round of anti-porn efforts (link broken). I’ve seen these sorts of things come and go, but for the first time in a long time, I sat down and watched their promo video. I agree with Kuono that it’s ironic that the anti-porn people are using porn to […]
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more thoughts on prop 8
- Nov, 10, 2008
- Charlie Glickman
- sexual politics, social oppressions
- No Comments.
I know that I’ve been writing a lot about Proposition 8 lately, but I keep having new thoughts come up. Anyway, it seems to me that the folks who pushed for prop 8 were doing their best to instill a moral panic. Moral panics occur when a large group of people see a group, event […]
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the lighter side of “no on prop 8”
- Oct, 28, 2008
- Charlie Glickman
- sex & culture, sexual politics
- 1 Comment.
Unless you’ve been really out of touch, you’ve probably already heard about how the Mormon Church has poured millions of dollars into Proposition 8, the proposed amendment to the California constitution that would ban same-sex marriage. Mind you, this is money coming from outside the state, from a tax-exempt church in order to fund a […]
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