Vox The bill’s language penalizes any websites that “promote or facilitate prostitution,” and allows authorities to pursue websites for “knowingly assisting, facilitating, or supporting sex trafficking,” which is vague enough to threaten everything from certain cryptocurrencies to porn videos to sites for perfectly legal escort services. (In fact, one of …
The Verge We also don’t know how greatly FOSTA will supplement existing anti-prostitution and anti-trafficking law. The Justice Department shut down Backpage and filed criminal charges against its founders last week, before FOSTA was signed. The owner of Rentboy.com, another sex work site, was sentenced to prison for promoting prostitution …
CBC Canada “No one is cheating here,” Lynch said. “Everyone is on the same page, there’s good communication constantly. Partners are always talking.”
Rolling Stone The indictment accuses the executives – Lacey, 69, and Larkin, 68 – of presenting Backpage as a site to advertise escort services while knowing that “the overwhelming majority of the website’s ads involve prostitution.” Backpage’s executive vice president Scott Spear, chief financial officer John “Jed” Brunst, sales and …
Independent UK People who identify as polyamorous sometimes argue it is a sexual orientation akin to being gay or straight, while others see it as a lifestyle choice. Either way, polyamorous relationships are typically characterised by an intense sense of commitment – both to one’s primary partner and any additional …
Eater SF While Kink sells its naughty furnishings at an estate sale this weekend — auctioning off items like an examination table and a human hamster wheel — The Armory club is busy adding naughty events to its calendar, include polyamory workshops, bondage classes, and demonstrations dedicated to fetish accoutrements …
NY Times That protection will be weakened by a bill that Congress passed last month, the Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act, also known as Fosta. It makes it easier for states to prosecute, or for victims to sue, internet companies they accuse of hosting content …
The Conversation “Along with other anti-pornography organizations, the fundamentalist Protestant political organization, the Moral Majority*, supported efforts to enforce and increase obscenity laws to regulate and reduce pornography. The Moral Majority’s platform linked pornography with their other concerns, suggesting that pornography, just like homosexuality or abortion, contributed to the moral …
The Daily Princeton Though BDSM activities can occur on a scene-by-scene basis, the article implies that this is the best — and only — option. This implication ignores the full spectrum of BDSM activities. Sure, these activities can be scene-by-scene, meaning that participants negotiate the activity and dynamic each time …
