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Nudity, Sexuality, and Censorship

There’s an interesting pattern I’ve seen over and over: a lot of people equate nudity and sexuality. This probably isn’t news to you, but I think it has some really important consequences. One of them, of course, is that there are all sorts of laws regulating things like nudity or topless women in public, even […]

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Oregon State U Shuts Tristan Taormino Out

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As you may have heard if you follow her on twitter, Tristan Taormino was invited to speak at Oregon State University’s Modern Sex Conference, at least until the folks in charge at the school found out that she makes and sells porn. Since I’m one of the speakers at the conference as well as being […]

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Google’s Acting in Loco Parentis

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This post also appeared on the Good Vibrations Magazine. Clipped from: sexandthe405.com (share this clip) Google just launched Google Instant, a somewhat nifty feature. You’ve probably noticed recently that when you start to enter a search query, Google would give you suggestions so you wouldn’t need to keep typing. They’ve taken it a step further. […]

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Can You Get Sexuality Info at the Library?

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One of the biggest challenges when it comes to regulating sexually-explicit material online is how to filter out the stuff you don’t want without also losing the stuff you want to keep. For example, if you filter porn websites that contain the word “breast”, you’re likely to also filter sites with information on breast cancer […]

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